好書推介：Man’s Search for Meaning （2）─Viktor Frankl

Spirituality is When

 2011年9月15日

             Spirituality is when one is willing to let go his freedom for the sake of his aging parents; when he found a piece of broken marble from the largest Viennese synagogue burnt down by the Nazis at home; when his father explained that the stone was a part of the tablet on which the 10 commandments were inscribed. Which one? “Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land.”

Spirituality is when one is still able to find a meaning and spiritual freedom in spite of his sufferings.

            Spirituality is when one has to give up all he has, he is still able to find God in the most unexpected place;  when he found the most important Jewish prayer, Shema Yisrael in a pocket of a newly acquired worn-out coat of an inmate, who had been sent to the gas chamber.

Spirituality is when one prayed “I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space” incessantly, until he felt like a human being again with a new life.

            Spirituality is when the homecoming man has the wonderful feeling that, after all that he has suffered, there is nothing else he needs to fear, except his God.

            With my greatest respect to Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, a psychologist,  a survivor of four Nazi camps, a spiritual man and a human being.