1.4.3. The Meaning of Suffering Suffering is a primeval problem. From the very beginning of humanity itself the face of man is marked with wrinkles. Men of all ages have tried to solve this problem or at least to smoothen it. Man wants to be happy and what hinders his happiness most is suffering, of one or other form. Something that which curtails man’s easiness or joy may be called suffering. If suffering is a problem and it must be solved some way. But if it is not, suffering is to be taken in a better and richer way. Suffering is a mystery not to be solved but to be accepted, to be understood and to be experienced. Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment is finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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.
1.5.4. Contribution of suffering to life.
According to Frankl, suffering contributes to one’s meaning and to one’s life. suffering is useless or in vain according to Frankl. Man spends time and talents, by way of accepting, experiencing, even trying to solve or avoid the problem of suffering. Logotherapy holds that suffering has something to contribute to life. As Kahlil Gibran rightly observed:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that it’s heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. Your pain would not seem less wonders that your joy and you would accept the seasons of your heart as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch certainty of winter
Whenever one is confronted with an inescapable, unavoidable situation, one has to face a fate that cannot be changed, eg. an incurable disease such …show more content…
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.
1.5.4. Contribution of suffering to life.
According to Frankl, suffering contributes to one’s meaning and to one’s life. suffering is useless or in vain according to Frankl. Man spends time and talents, by way of accepting, experiencing, even trying to solve or avoid the problem of suffering. Logotherapy holds that suffering has something to contribute to life. As Kahlil Gibran rightly observed:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that it’s heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. Your pain would not seem less wonders that your joy and you would accept the seasons of your heart as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch certainty of winter