If you know your “why,” you can survive almost any “how.”

What makes life worth living—even in the darkest times?Frankl answers from the depths of a concentration camp: meaning is what keeps us alive. Not comfort, not success—meaning.

The Core Question

Frankl endured Auschwitz, not because he was the strongest, but because he had a reason to live.Have a reason to live.

Surviving the Unsurvivable

Suffering is part of life. But it doesn’t have to destroy you.You can choose how to respond—and even suffering can become meaningful.

Suffering Transformed

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

You may not control what happens to you—but you always control your response.That’s your last human freedom. No one can take it from you.

Freedom of Attitude

Meaning isn’t something you wait to find—it’s something you decide to give.It’s not “out there.” It’s in how you live, love, and endure.

The Power of Meaning

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

Frankl flips modern psychology:Don’t chase happiness. Chase meaning.Ironically, happiness comes as a side effect.

Beyond Happiness

Even in a death camp, Frankl saw that those who gave up spiritually—died.But those who held onto purpose—a loved one, a dream, a mission—could endure unthinkable pain.

You Are Not Your Circumstances

Life is asking you a question.You don’t demand meaning from life—you answer life, moment by moment.

Logotherapy in One Line

1.	Work – Doing something that matters.2.	Love – Caring for someone deeply.3.	Suffering – Finding dignity in hardship.

Three Paths to Meaning

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.

Frankl’s message isn’t abstract—it’s a call.What pain will you redeem?What love will you protect?What meaning will you choose—starting now?

Your Turn Now

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

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Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy.His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

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Man's Search for Meaning

You’re not broken. You’re just rearranging. You’re not lost. You’re just walking through a fog your spirit created so you’d finally slow down and feel. This chaos? It’s not the end. It’s the rewiring. You’re being asked to soften your walls without losing your depth. To be seen—really seen—without explaining yourself to everyone.

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You don’t need to have one lane, one face, one voice. You’re a galaxy, not a Google Doc. You can hold silence and craving. Stillness and fire. Wisdom and a little existential mess.

Take your time. The world will wait. And when you return—clearer, truer, brighter— you won’t need to prove a thing. You’ll just be. And that will be enough.

Chaos may seem overwhelming, but it won't last forever. Here's why:
<ul>
 <li>Calm After the Storm: Just as the sun always comes out after a storm, good times will follow the chaos.</li>
 <li>Rise Above It: Use this time to learn and grow, and you'll come out even stronger.</li>
 <li>You're in Control: You have the power to overcome this, even when it feels like you don't.</li>
</ul>

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Note to Self (from Your Higher Self, probably sipping tea in a library somewhere)

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Chaos is not the end, it's the beginning of growth

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

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History

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Love & Relationships

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Politics

Philosopher George Santayana on Why We Follow The Crowd

Lewis argues that all humans have an innate sense of right and wrong—a “moral law”—which suggests the existence of a higher power or God who instilled that law in us.

Moral Law Points to a Moral Lawgiver

He proposes that Christianity uniquely explains why we feel we ought to behave a certain way, and why we often fail to do so.

Christianity Makes Sense of Our Moral Experience

Lewis presents a famous trilemma: given what Jesus claimed about Himself, He must either be telling the truth (Lord), lying (Liar), or deluded (Lunatic). He argues that the only reasonable choice is to accept Him as Lord.

Jesus Is Either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic

True Christian living is marked by virtues like humility, charity, chastity, and patience. Lewis emphasizes that virtue is not just about doing good things, but becoming a good person.

Christian Behavior Centers on Virtue

Lewis sees faith as trust in God, and emphasizes that genuine faith naturally leads to moral actions. One without the other is incomplete.

Faith and Works Go Hand in Hand

Of all sins, Lewis calls pride the most dangerous, as it sets people in direct opposition to God. True humility is key to Christian growth.

Pride Is the Great Sin

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Christianity isn’t just about being “nice” but about transformation—becoming new creatures through the work of the Holy Spirit.

God Desires to Make Us Like Christ

Lewis affirms the sanctity and permanence of marriage, arguing it’s not just a social contract but a spiritual union.

Christian Marriage Is a Lifelong Commitment

Lewis focuses on “mere Christianity”—the core beliefs shared by most Christian traditions—rather than denominational differences.

Christianity Transcends Denominations

True Christianity means giving up the self-centered life and allowing God to remake us completely. It’s not just about rules, but relationship and transformation.

The Christian Life Is About Surrender

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Sharp and clear introduction to Christianity.

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear this powerful apologetic for the Christian faith.

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Mere Christianity

Definition: Oxford Dictionary defines “attachment” as a strong emotional connection to something or someone.The Unspoken Bond:<ul><li>It is human nature to form attachments to people, objects and ideas.</li><li>Our attachments are shaped by our emotions, experiences and personal values.</li><li>Attachments can bring comfort, but they can also create a sense of dependence.</li></ul>

The Hidden Truth of Attachment

Attachment influences how we behave in our daily lives. Our decisions, whether related to people, objects, animals, or imaginary beings, are affected by the level of attachment we have towards them. 

 Attachment can impact our behavior in many ways, such as influencing our emotions, actions, and thoughts. Therefore, it is important to be aware of our attachments to make informed decisions in life.

Attachment and Everyday Behavior

Do you feel stressed when thinking about your daily priorities? This may be because you are too attached to every little thing, believing that they all hold equal significance.Evaluation of the significance of tasks is key to planning your priorities. When we attach ourselves to everything, we tend to feel overwhelmed, and this drains our energy.The Importance of DetachmentBy detaching from things that do not hold true importance, we can prioritize tasks more effectively. Clearing our minds of unnecessary attachments will prevent us from burning out and allow us to focus on what truly matters.

Attachment Contrast: The Power of Detachment

Detachment is not about indifference, it's about showing a balanced level of concern for everything. The more we care, the more it can make us feel defensive and reliant, causing unnecessary worry.To be detached means to be cognizant of what we feel towards something, acknowledging our emotions rather than suppressing them. It's about maintaining a healthy distance from situations, allowing ourselves to detach from negative influences.Choose what matters today, and show less care that does not value your present moment

Misunderstanding About Detachment

Attachment issues can have a significant impact on one's well-being and relationships. People who struggle with attachment may find it difficult to trust, set boundaries, and maintain healthy relationships. This can also lead to risky behaviors, extreme anxiety, and can affect mental, physical, and intellectual development.How to Handle Attachment Issues:<ul><li>Set boundaries</li><li>Never put too much trust, don’t be depended to anyone</li><li>Practice doing it alone sometimes, asks for help only if you need to</li><li>Realize that people will come and go, the reality that no one will stays and that is completely normal.</li></ul>

Attachment Issues

“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”

Attachment is purely based on emotions, how often do you care so much about the things that doesn't really benefit you in the long run? In the following stashes includes the concept on how detachment can influence every part of your life.

The Power of Detachment

Takeaways: Overthinking means looping the same thought repeatedly.It often leads to anxiety and mental exhaustion.Recognizing it is the first step to stopping it.

Understand the Impact of Overthinking

Q "Our mind can't differentiate between reality and imagination."Takeaways:Imagined fears can cause real stress responses in the body.Positive thoughts can improve both your emotional and physical health.Choose what you allow your mind to dwell on.

"The mind of an overthinker works in a similar pattern, he has no time to work."Takeaways:Constant overthinking disrupts focus and productivity.Mental noise prevents clarity and decision-making.Quieting the mind frees up space to act.

"Be real to yourself, understand that all these thoughts are harmful."Takeaways:Denying your overthinking won’t help.Self-awareness is the key to transformation.You are in charge of your mental narrative

Be Real to Yourself

"Be very careful with what you watch."Takeaways:Media directly affects your mood and mindset.Negative content feeds fear and doubt.Watch things that calm, inspire, or educate you

"Try doing meditation, seek mindfulness, find out your real identity."Takeaways:Meditation builds clarity and calm.Mindfulness anchors you to the present.Stillness helps you discover your true self.

Practice Mindfulness and Meditation

"Try living in the present moment."Takeaways:The present is the only moment you truly control.Worrying about the past or future leads to stress. Presence brings peace.

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Habits

How Overthinking Is Ruining Our Life

We notice things in and around ourselves we haven’t noticed before.The thoughts, the feelings, the physical sensations.Thoughts are not a problem, but automatically identifying with every passing thought is a huge problem.

The only thing fuelling your thoughts is your attention.If you want to access more of your vitality, get used to paying attention to your breathing.We just have to understand that these are thoughts – not truths.

Most of the psychological suffering we humans experience is voluntary and self-inflicted.We believe in thoughts that want to harm us.It’s there, in our minds, that our suffering is created; that’s where it lives and thrives.You shouldn’t believe your every thought.

Self-inflicted psychological suffering:

‘Knowledge is proud of all it knows. Wisdom is humble before all it doesn’t know.’There’s value in not getting stuck in a state of certainty.If we always cling to what we think we already know, how will we ever discover anything new?How can we learn?

Kitschy wisdom:

‘The next time you sense a conflict brewing, when you feel things are about to come to a head with someone, just repeat this mantra to yourself three times, sincerely and convincingly – in any language you want – and your worries will evaporate, like dew from the grass on a summer morning.’‘I may be wrong. I may be wrong. I may be wrong.’

The magic mantra:

Thoughts with the word ‘should’ in them make me small, dull and lonely.Clench your fist hard, then relax it into an open hand.It’s simple, but it’s a good illustration of how we can let go of things we cling to too hard: things, feelings, convictions.

Closed fist, open palm:

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Loving-kindness.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Compassion</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Muditā – humanity’s inherent capacity to feel joy at our own and others’ success.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Upekkha - ‘You always have to start with yourself.’ Your compassion for others will always fall short and remain fragile, so long as you’re unable to extend it to yourself first.</li></ol>

Buddha singled out four emotions he considered divine.

There’s value in not deceiving others for our own gain, in not hurting others because it serves our purposes at the time, in avoiding bending or twisting the truth because it’s more convenient.Something beautiful starts to happen when we actively choose to take responsibility for what we say and do.

Be the thing you want to see more of in the world:

What happens when we genuinely, with our entire being, understand that we don’t have each other forever?We no longer have time for half-measures.One day, we’re going to have to say goodbye – to every single person who means something to us.There’s only one way to approach other people and life itself: gently.

9 Powerful Lessons from the book "I may be wrong" by Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and eloquent. It brought me so much joy and so much comfort' FEARNE COTTON 'Life-changing. This book is sensational. If you're struggling, feeling a little lost, anxious or in need of a mental lift, please read it' ELLA MILLS, FOUNDER OF DELICIOUSLY ELLA The Sunday Times bestselling book of comfort and timeless wisdom from former forest monk, Björn Natthiko Lindeblad We like to think we can determine the path our life takes, but events rarely unfold the way we plan for or expect. In this international bestseller, former forest monk Björn Natthiko Lindeblad draws on his humbling journey towards navigating uncertainty – helping you, with kindness and good humour, to: - Let go of the small stuff - Accept the things you cannot control - Manage difficult emotions - Find stillness at busy times - Face yourself – and others – without judgment Infusing the everyday with heart and grace, this is a wise and soothing handbook for dealing with life's challenges.

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Mindfulness

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Meditation

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I May Be Wrong

Everything in human self-understanding is shouting: only the details have yet to be filled in. Soon, there will be no more puzzles and no unpleasant surprises, no agonizing dilemmas in human existence; the question of the good life will have been settled once and for all, scientifically, without the necessity of endless, unprovable metaphysical speculations. To understand all will no longer be to forgive all, for there will be nothing to forgive; everyone will behave reasonably in the first place.I don’t believe it. and I’m not sure that I would want to live in such a world if it were true.

Do we understand everything about ourselves or only think so?

although Freud was personally conservative in his manner and morality, except where his incestuous adultery with his sister-in-law was concerned, his effect, if not his intention, was to loosen Man’s sense of responsibility for his own actions.Freud powerfully alienated men from their own consciousness by claiming that what went on in their conscious minds was but a shadow play, and that the real action lay deep beneath it, all undiscovered (and undiscoverable) without many hours of talking about oneself in the presence of an analyst.

Freud started it

The absurdity of treating humans as glorified Pavlov’s dogs having become evident and inescapable, a new element was then added to the recipe: *thought*. “Cognitive-behavioral therapy seeks to improve functioning and emotional well-being by identifying the beliefs, feelings and behaviors associated with psychological disturbance, and revising them through critical analysis and experiential exploration to be consistent with desired outcomes and positive life goals.”For those with obsessions and compulsions or mildly depressive feelings, CBT works.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) works

As is almost always the way with converts to anything, believers in CBT come wildly to overestimate its scope, and regard it as a panacea for most, if not all, the disgruntlements of Mankind. Misery has a tendency to rise to meet the means available for its alleviation.It is part of the very foundation of CBT that this is what people commonly do. Therefore, the effectiveness of CBT is perfectly compatible with the spread in the population of the very condition for which it is supposedly the effective cure.

... but it is overrated

You can persuade yourself into the symptomatology of a hundred diseases merely by reading a medical textbook; how much easier is it to do so when the symptoms are explicitly in the mind!

Perhaps there is a prevalence of certain conditions, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, that is “natural” and cannot be reduced, but one cannot help but wonder whether many conditions (for example, various kinds of eating disorders) spread in proportion as they are known about.The Werther effect, after all, is well known: it was named for an epidemic of suicides by young men all round Europe after the publication of Goethe’s *The Sorrows of Young Werther*, in which the romantic hero kills himself because of impossible love.

From knowledgable to sick

There are other ways to promote psychological fragility – by rewarding it. Plaintiffs have a vested interest in maximizing the harm that they have suffered from an accident of some kind. Psychological consequences of injury are both easy to fake and difficult to disprove.And, since the law’s delay is long, the person who fakes neurosis for long enough actually becomes neurotic.Since most people do not like to think of themselves as frauds, the symptoms continue even after the case is settled, so they do not come out as frauds.

Incentives to suffer – courts

Effort of the social security system is even larger. There has long been a struggle to have psychological disorders treated by the system in the same way as physical illnesses, a struggle in which psychiatrists and psychologists have taken part without acknowledging that they (who see vested interests everywhere else) might themselves have a vested interest in the matter.The government agrees to it because this not only creates a new class of dependents upon itself, but allows it to minimize the rate of unemployment: for a sick person is not unemployed, he is sick.

Incentives to suffer – Social security system

The expansion of psychiatric diagnoses leads paradoxically and simultaneously to overtreatment and under-treatment. The genuinely disturbed get short shrift: those with chronic schizophrenia, which seems most likely to me to be a genuine pathological malfunction of the brain, are left to molder in the doorways, streets, and stations of large cities, while untold millions have their fluctuating preoccupations attended to with the kind of attention that an overconcerned mother gives her spoiled child – with more or less the same results.

Considering all diagnosis equal

There is a demand for parity of thought, feeling, and judgment (or lack of it) when we meet or consider people with psychological disturbances. They are never to be thought of as responsible for their own condition or situation, but rather as victims of something exterior to themselves.This determination not to judge is compounded of three intertwined things: <ol><li>fear</li><li>a wish</li><li> hope</li></ol>

Why there is demand for equality of diagnosis?

We fear to judge because, in judging, we may blame those who are truly not blameworthy. We fear to appear censorious, as if there were nothing between complete and consistent moral latitudinarianism and Dickensian hypocrisy. Since the latter is now the only sin, it is best to make no judgment at all.By not judging, we avoid the possibility of error – at least the error of blaming the victim – though not that of exculpating the perpetrator.

1. Fear of misjudgement

We wish to appear understanding. To understand all is to forgive all; therefore, if we forgive all, we understand all. We thus put ourselves in the position of an all-merciful deity, the very deity whose existence we often are angrily to deny. Suffering of any kind, even that which would once have been deemed by most people as self-inflicted, is *ipso facto* evidence of victimhood. Our philosophy is: *I think, therefore I am*, but *He suffers, therefore he’s a victim.And only then can we maintain our pretense to universal understanding and experience the warmth of our own compassion.

2. Wish to appear understanding

"Virtue is not manifested in one’s behavior, always so difficult and tedious to control, but in one’s attitude toward victims. This view of virtue is both sentimental and unfeeling, cloying and brutal: for it implies that those who are not victims are not worthy of our sympathy or understanding, only of our denunciation."

The purpose of such all-encompassing understanding, other than moral self-aggrandizement, is the evasion of one’s own moral responsibility; for it follows that if no one is to be judged (because to judge is to judge harshly), then we can hope that one is not oneself to be judged – not even by oneself. This, in effect, means carte blanche to do as you feel like, because all behavior is put on an equal moral footing.

3. Hope not to be judged

That is why it is not uncommon nowadays to hear someone say “I’m learning to forgive myself” (usually under the guidance of a therapist), as if such learning were hard and valuable work.According to more traditional ways of thinking, learning to forgive oneself is learning how to act without scruple, how to forge ahead without regard to other people, how – in effect – to become a psychopath.Whatever else you may do, you must always love and esteem yourself, otherwise you are doomed to a life of sterile self-denigration.

We try to make it easy for ourselves

The notion of self-love or self-esteem is in itself either ridiculous or repellent. No one ascribes his good character or successes in life to an adequate fund of self-esteem.Self-doubt, within reason, is something to be overcome; self-esteem is complacency elevated to an ontological plane.No sensible person thinks for a moment about whether he loves or esteems himself. To do so is inherently a form of vanity.If it were possible to have too little self-esteem, it is also possible to have too much of it but if any person has – too much or too little (or just enough) – requires a moral judgment.

Focus on the self-esteem and self-love is vanity

Self-esteem is a concept that belongs to the psychology of the Real Me. The Real Me is someone who is inherently good and admirable, by nature good and inside every bad man there’s a good one trying to get out.The Real Me may have no connection to the Me as it acts in the world and appears to others. It is a secret and beautiful garden often accessible only by means of psychology.Real Me is admirable evasion – it allows us to do as we please without having to think badly of ourselves, to experience genuine remorse, or even to examine ourselves honestly.

Psychology of the Real Me

I do not mean here in any way to decry neurophysiology and its accomplishments. But what begins as a scientific advance quickly ends as an urban myth.It is now not uncommon to overhear people talking of their own brain chemistry.They speak with the strange authority of the religiously certain, the imbalance of their brain chemistry being as evident a fact to them.

Arcane science of neurochemistry

The popularity of brain chemistry as the explanation of all human behavior began in the 1980s with the extremely successful marketing of supposedly antidepressant, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's).They were undoubtedly effective,  but they had a number of troublesome side effects, not least among them a propensity to send patients to the opposite end of the mood spectrum, where they became manic.Though unproved and now discarded by almost everyone (at least as to the biochemical substance supposedly disordered), helped “to establish a biochemical basis for depression.”

Neurochemical imbalance is not entirely valid

First, because of the development of new antidepressants, the famous – or infamous – SSRIS mentioned above.Second, the very word unhappy has been all but eliminated from common parlance. If someone admits to unhappiness, it might be that his own ill-conduct, foolish or immoral, has contributed to it; but if he is depressed he is the victim of an illness, of something which, metaphysically speaking, has fallen from the sky.

Why is still neurochemical disbalance so popular?

This neurotransmitter reductionism, in which an over-or undersupply of a handful of biological substances in the brain supposedly accounted for all our disasters, should have been laughed out of court on commonsense grounds. The number of conditions for which the SSRI's were prescribed, some of them specially invented to fit the drug, gradually increased until it almost seemed that the whole of human misery was accounted for by errors of cerebral serotonin metabolism. Unhappy? Given to eating in binges? Shy at parties? Take Prozac, or one of its analogues.

SSRI's as panacea

Consider a person accused of a crime. To control himself and behave otherwise than he did. The assumption is that, if it can be shown that the person is neurologically deficient in self-control, he will escape punishment, since he will have been shown thereby to lack the *mens rea* necessary for a crime to have been committed at all.Actually, the logical consequences of this approach are not as liberal as often conceived, and are precisely illiberal, because they Remove moral responsibility from the law, and what you are left with is technical administration.

Paradox of responsibility

Changes in brain scans have been found in drug addicts so the National Institute on Drug Abuse has drawn the conclusion that drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease and nothing else.But the brains of London taxi drivers, for example, have been shown to differ from those of the non-taxi-driving inhabitants of London because those drivers have all mastered.This means that changes in the brain do not indicate that whatever causes them is a brain disease.

Behavior ↔ brain

If complex behavior such as addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease, no one should be surprised if addicts awaited their salvation by means of a magic bullet. But to imply that there is or could be such a magic bullet is, in effect, to compound the problem for addicts; it is just what they want to hear so that they can continue their self-destruction with a clear conscience and that self-righteousness that comes nowadays with the awareness of being a victim – the victim of a chronic, relapsing brain disease, as revealed by brain scans.

Counterproductive label

I do not wish to deny that psychologists have done many intriguing and ingenious experiments. But the overall effect of psychological thought on human culture and society, I contend, has been overwhelmingly negative because it gives the false impression of greatly increased human self-understanding where none has been achieved, it encourages the evasion of responsibility by turning subjects into objects where it supposedly takes account of or interests itself in subjective experience, and it makes shallow the human character because it discourages genuine self-examination and self-knowledge.

Net impact of psychology

The author of Admirable Evasions is Theodore Dalrymple, the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British cultural critic, psychiatrist, and former prison doctor. He is best known for his sharp critiques of modern culture, ideology, and the psychological worldview that he argues has replaced traditional moral thinking.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.

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Mental Health

Theodore Dalrymple

Admirable Evasions

The heart of the book is a call to pray “Sun Stand Still” prayers—big, bold, supernatural prayers based on a faith that dares to believe the impossible.

Bold faith and audacious prayers 😎🙏🏼

Furtick builds the book around the biblical story where Joshua asks God to make the sun stand still to win a battle. This moment symbolizes faith that acts with determination and expects miracles.

Inspired by Joshua 10 📖☀️

God responds to active faith, not indecision or fear. The author encourages taking bold steps and stepping out of your comfort zone.

God doesn’t honor passivity 😔

The bigger our request, the more God is glorified when He answers. Our faith reflects our vision of who He is.

Boldness honors God, and God honors boldness 🙌🏻

The purpose of an audacious life of faith is not to glorify ourselves, but to allow God to work through us so that others come to know Him.

It’s not about you—it’s about God ✝️

This book is a challenge to every believer to ask for the impossible. He who believes never loses.

If you're not daring to believe God for the impossible, you may be sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian Life.   “This book is not a Snuggie. The words on these pages will not go down like Ambien. I’m not writing to calm or coddle you. With God’s help, I intend to incite a riot in your mind. Trip your breakers and turn out the lights in your favorite hiding places of insecurity and fear. Then flip the switch back on so that God’s truth can illuminate the divine destiny that may have been lying dormant inside you for years. In short, I’m out to activate your audacious faith. To inspire you to ask God for the impossible. And in the process, to reconnect you with your God-sized purpose and potential.” —Steven Furtick, from Sun Stand Still

Sun Stand Still

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