Frankl tells the simple tale of a young
woman’s death at Auschwitz as an example of inner greatness: “This young woman
knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was
cheerful in spite of the knowledge.”I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard.
In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishment
seriously. “Pointing to the window of the hut, she said, ‘This tree here is the
only friend I have in my loneliness.” Through the window she could see just one
branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. “I often talk
to this tree,” she said to me. I was startled and didn’t quite know how to take
her words. Was she delirious…Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. “Yes.”
What did it say to her? She answered, “It said to me, “I am here-I am here-I am
life, eternal life.’ ” (pp. 77-78)
Victore
Frankl; ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’pp77-78)
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