john m heller

“We are attracted to something—the opposite sex, art, jewelry—and we could spend our lives chasing these things. But we suffer from confusion. It’s really Hashem we want. But we confuse Hashem with His manifestations. We confuse the presence with the packaging.”
― David Aaron, Seeing God: Ten Life Changing Lessons of the Kabbalah

“Victor Frankl identified self-transcendence as an indispensable human capacity for meaningful living when he wrote, “Man is not destroyed by suffering; he is destroyed by suffering without meaning.”
― Frank Ostaseski, The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how,” as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything