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Without perception of the unique meaning of his singular existence a person would be numbed in di cult situations. He would be like the mountain-climber who enters a dense fog and, lacking the goal before his eyes, is in danger of succumbing to a total weariness. If the fog lifts and he catches sight of the shelter hut in the distance, he at once feels a surge of renewed strength. Every climber has experienced fatigue, the agging energy that attacks him when he is “in the wall” and cannot tell whether he may not be taking a wrong route, whether he has not perhaps entered a blind crevice – until suddenly be sees the escape chimney.
en, realizing that he is only a few rope-lengths below the peak, he feels fresh strength coursing into his arms as he reaches out cheerfully for new holds. As long as creative values are in the forefront of the life task, their actualization generally coincides with a person’s work. Work usually represents the area in which the individual’s uniqueness stands in relation to society and thus acquires meaning and value. is meaning and value, however, is attached to the person’s work as a contribution to society, not to the actual occupation as such.
e Doctor and the Soul by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl