Willie Grieve

Victor Frankl was a Jewish doctor who survived as an inmate of the Auschwitz death camp … He wrote a book Man’s Search for Meaning which describes his experiences in Auschwitz and also lays out the general principles of logotherapy.

I recently reread this book, and came across a quote I hadn’t remembered, from the Russian author Dostoevsky. He said: “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” I read this several times, not initially grasping what he meant. It seemed an extraordinary, counter-intuitive thing to say.

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