#viktor-frankl — Public Fediverse posts

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/07/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl/

Ketika Kebodohan Duduk di Singgasana: Catatan tentang Kuasa yang Tak Ditopang Kebijaksanaan

https://legawa.com/2026/07/04/ketika-kebodohan-duduk-di-singgasana-catatan-tentang-kuasa-yang-tak-ditopang-kebijaksanaan/

@bensationell @annyhartmann Wenn ich nachts aufwache und merke, dass mein Haus brennt, nützt es auch kaum schreiend herum zu laufen und in Panik zu verfallen.

Stattdessen sollte man die Lage korrekt benennen, sein direktes Umfeld informieren, aber sich vor allem mit Leuten, denen der Ernst der Lage ebenso bewusst ist, organisieren und kühlen Kopfes den nächsten Schritt machen.

Unsere Welt brennt, aber wir alle sind noch lange nicht machtlos.

Persönlicher Tipp wenn man sich mal besonders machtlos fühlt und so als hätte man gar keinen Handlungsspielraum mehr: #ViktorFrankl lesen und verstehen was #Resilienz wirklich bedeutet.

Oder um meinen Aufruf zur kollektiven Selbstorganisation etwas plakativer zu formulieren: "Bildet Banden"! ✊

#Klimakrise #BildetBanden #KlimaschutzIstMenschenschutz

#literatura #psicologia
Autor: #ViktorFrankl ✒️📖✒️
«La felicidad es como una mariposa. Cuanto más la persigues, más huye. Pero si vuelves la atención hacia otras cosas, ella viene y suavemente se posa en tu hombro. La felicidad no es una posada en el camino, sino una forma de caminar por la vida.»

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/23/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl/

#zitate #sprueche #freiheit #viktorfrankl

Was #ViktorFrankl writing about #AI?

This passage by #ViktorFrankl feels like foreshadowing.

Quest for Purpose: Logotherapy's Enduring Echo

Discover how Viktor Frankl's logotherapy helps find meaning in life, even during hardship. Learn about its core ideas and why it's important today.

#Logotherapy, #ViktorFrankl, #MeaningOfLife, #MentalHealth, #Purpose

https://newsletter.tf/logotherapy-viktor-frankl-meaning-search/

Logotherapy, developed by Viktor Frankl, teaches that finding meaning is key to life. This idea is still relevant today, helping people cope with difficult times.

#Logotherapy, #ViktorFrankl, #MeaningOfLife, #MentalHealth, #Purpose
https://newsletter.tf/logotherapy-viktor-frankl-meaning-search/

Viktor Frankl on Success

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/05/viktor-frankl-success/

Ostern 2026. Mir geht es gut. Ich habe angefangen zu arbeiten, vier Wochen Hamburger Modell liegen hinter mir, ab Dienstag dann wieder „ganz normal“. Eine lange Phase des „wieder in die Spur kommen“ liegt hinter mir. Jetzt bin ich wieder aktiv, gehe zum Sport, lebe das Leben wieder mit einer neuen Normalität.

Es ist nicht lange her, aus der Reha kommend, jeder Tag war eine kleine […]

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

— Viktor Frankl

#Stoic #Stoicism #ViktorFrankl

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/06/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl/

When the illusion of someone else being in charge fades, responsibility isn’t what’s added — it’s what’s revealed.

Life keeps asking its questions, regardless. We respond not with certainty or control, but by how we live and relate from where we stand.

This is responsibility as practice, and it’s inseparable from learning how to stand together.

Full reflection here:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-pretending-part-ii

#WhenWeStopPretending #PracticedResponsibility #RelationalInfrastructure #SharedAgency #ViktorFrankl

I bought a paperback copy of #ViktorFrankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning, if that tells you anything about my headspace.

As inherited stories about progress and protection loosen, freedom can feel oddly thin on its own. Frankl points to what completes it.

Responsibility isn’t punishment or pressure. It’s what becomes possible when agency returns to human scale — practiced with others, in real conditions.

Full reflection for this week here: https://emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-pretending-part-i

#WhenWeStopPretending #Disillusionment #Agency #RelationalInfrastructure #ViktorFrankl

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

— Viktor Frankl

#Stoic #Stoicism #ViktorFrankl

Sinn im Leben finden | Elisabeth Lukas im Gespräch

In dem ausführlichen „Thanatos.tv“-Gespräch geht es um die Frage nach dem Sinn im Leben, um Religiosität, die Bedeutung der Vergänglichkeit und um das Thema Todesangst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmlNEEsPGo

#elisabethLukas #fernsehen #gespraech #logotherapie #sinnImLebenFinden #thanatosTv #viktorFrankl

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

— Viktor Frankl

#Stoic #Stoicism #ViktorFrankl

Reflection: Day 18

NOTICE THE SPACE — “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor Frankl

Reflection is about self-focus. Each day you’re practicing holding up a mirror. Specifically, you’re observing your thoughts, in response to a prompt.

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Arrived in the middle? Visit the first post, Where to begin?
(The entire series is available to download as a PDF ebook.)

Happiness must ensue

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.” Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

~ Viktor Frankl

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Responsibleness

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

~ Viktor Frankl

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A human being is a finite thing

To be sure, a human being is a finite thing, and his freedom is restricted. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions. … I also bear witness to the unexpected extant to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

~ Viktor Frankl

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Instead of possibilities, I have realities

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? “No, thank you,” he will think. “Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done, and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.”

~ Viktor Frankl

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The meaning at a given moment

What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: “Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?”

~ Viktor Frankl

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He who is asked

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by being responsible.

~ Viktor Frankl

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The meaning of life

We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

~ Viktor Frankl

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Between stimulus and response

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

~ Viktor Frankl

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To choose one’s attitude

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

~ Viktor Frankl

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