What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
viktor frankl (Man’s Search For Meaning, p.166)
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“call of a potential meaning” is a powerful phrase, Angela Parenza.
By: Ester on December 17, 2008
at 11:54 pm
I also wanted to comment on the power of that phrase, but Ester beat me to it, Angela Parenza. We must have worthy goals, and we must be challenged in order to become who we’re supposed to become. We can’t get there with smooth waters all the time.
By: elspeth on December 17, 2008
at 11:57 pm