Another Key to Feeling Free

[Ron Alexander]

Another Key to Feeling Free

"...to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way."
Victor Frankl in his brilliant profound book MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING.

Here are the two paragraphs that sandwich this quote:
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's freedom-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way.
There are were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of a typical inmate.