The Life-changing Impact of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy — 12. The Choice Is Yours: Become What You Have Been Created to Be!

1. 1. A change of attitude changes everything; gratitude, expressed before personal needs, is a signal of transcendence.
2. 2. Meaning is the tension of direction; the strain between what is and what ought to be drives an inspired life.
3. 3. Each person has a unique calling; the question is not why you were not like Moses, but why you were not yourself.
4. 4. Self-transcendence, not self-absorption, is the path to meaning; stepping outside oneself allows true sight.
5. 5. The existential vacuum—a collective neurosis of modern times—results from replacing the will to meaning with the will to pleasure or power.
6. 6. Evil is stripped of its facades in its vicious efforts to degrade humans; judgment rests on those who killed faith through relentless suffering.
7. 7. Holy faith in the camps was superhuman; loss of faith under such conditions was human and not to be condemned.
8. 8. Every decision, from smallest to largest, is a decision for all eternity; each moment holds possibilities that are saved or lost forever.
9. 9. The choice is sovereignly mine: I can become bitter or better; every situation is a choice to respond responsibly.
10. 10. Grace never forces a response; we can deny it, but it never gives up on us. Evil self-destructs; time for repentance is drawn out in mercy.
11. 11. The Tree of Life in the midst of the garden represents the indestructible meaning of life; the way back is through affliction and divine revelation.
12. 12. Faith does not demand the final outcome; the moment is now, and a 'Yes' to life right here changes everything.