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Old 09-12-2008, 12:39 PM   #14 (permalink)
shivraj
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Countdown: 86 days



Books read :

(1)
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler
Pages:298
Time for reading: 2.15 Hrs

(2)
Man's Search for Meaning : Victor Frankl
Pages:154
Time for first reading: 2 hrs
Marked for deep study in the future.

I read this book 4 times in last 2 days.

This is a humble beginning of the challenge but worth starting with the book like 'Man's search for meaning'.

I am deeply touched by this book.

Above 2 books are of the authors one who was responsible for concentration camp and other who was in that camp for 3 years and lost his father, mother, brother and wife in "OVEN". I read the book from both point of view. I come to conclusion that wrong beliefs, attitude, action can create such a horror that nobody could ever imagined at the same time right attitude and faith can save the man even in the extreme torture and suffering.

Author quoted that..

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

In the concentration camp every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is "the last of human freedoms"—the ability to "choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
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