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Collection of talks and articles by Ama Samy – a Jesuit priest and a Zen Master.
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Surprising conclusion at the end of the book: teenage girls need first of all some spiritual development.
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Video games keep boys in the virtual world; less practical and more abstract school teaching made learning unattractive; ADHD drugs changes the brains ares responsible for motivation; environmental estrogens from PET bottles might modify various functions of the boys’ organisms; male role model radically changed.
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Step back and analyze your thought processes.
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I used to say the most important is how we relate to any situation we face. Our attitude is very important. “Man’s Search for Meaning” gives me more power to invite others to pursue own life sense and practicing its fulfillment. Viktor Frankl shows that practicing freedom of choice and dignity was possible even in conditions of Auschwitz where Frankl spent many long months of 1940s.
The book gently combines the camp’s stories of the author with his introduction of Logotherapy. Re the latter, the following list of tenets represents Frankl’s basic principles of Logotherapy:
Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
We have inalienable freedom to find meaning.
We can find meaning in life in three different ways, by:
Creating a work or doing a deed;
Experiencing something or encountering someone;
The attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.
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