Maybe THE most inspiring book ever written

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April 30, 2010

Hello again dear readers and friends,
Back in the day when I was in grad school studying pastoral counseling, there was one book recommended to us students that remains tops on my list of inspirational reads all these years later.

It's not an easy book to get through, as it details the author's own story of life in a concentration camp. He was a Viennese Jew, Viktor Frankl, who was hauled off to Auschwitz.

Amazingly, he survived and was among those skeletal humans liberated by the Allied forces. How did he make it through? He saw that being able to intensify his inner life and deepen his spirituality--in other words, to find meaning in what appeared to be an utterly meaningless, cruel world--was the secret to preserving both body and soul. And after the war, he went on to found logotherapy, a theory of psychology based on this concept. 

I can only say this, too, is what I would call a life-changing book.