"Live as if you were living already for the second time, and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" It seems to me that there is nothing that would stimulate a man's sense of responsibleness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first that the present is passed, and that the past may yet be changed and amended. Such a precept confronts him with life's finiteness as well as the finality of what he makes out of both his life and himself.
[Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning," p.131]
For the full article on this remarkable Holocaust survivor and eminent psychological theorist go to my, "Spiritual . . . But Not Religious" blog, below. Embedded in the article is the audio book of "Man's Search for Meaning."
http://www.facebook.com/l/551ef4nwke6yRxxZk5q5QVy-HVA/spiritualnotreligious.blogspot.com/2011/04/viktor-frankl-from-suffering-and-death.html
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