| You want to be happy, but do you know
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| | for many thousands of American and
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| how. Read further to understand why for
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| | foreign pastors. We feel deeply honored
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| social, spiritual creatures such as
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| | to have taken part in their outstanding
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| ourselves aquiring power, prestige and
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| | ministry. LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY was the
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| material possessions is never enough.
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| | lead-off book in the Executive Growth
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| Our emphasis is on joyful living through
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| | Series offered by New American Library, a
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| spiritual values (or ethical virtues),
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| | major American publishing company. NICE
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| positive attitudes, high expectations,
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| | GUYS was an American best seller while
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| mature beliefs and responsible choices.
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| | LEADERSHIP POWER was extremely useful to
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| During a FULFILLMENT seminar, at the
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| | executives and managers throughout Japan.
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| University of Arizona for the Affiliated
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| | Obviously, we are not novices and we
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| Women's Clubs, a charming and successful
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| | believe you can find a great deal of help
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| woman unintentionally made our point
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| | by studying the materials we offer.
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| about success, satisfaction and
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| | Fortunately, life can become deeply
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| happiness. Catherine Hendricks spoke
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| | meaningful for loving persons who are
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| about several major problems that are
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| | maturing, who are meeting the needs of
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| caused by living too secular a life-style
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| | their spiritual unconscious that Frankl
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| in this period of swift, destabilizing
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| | wrote about - which is as vital to
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| and often disconcerting change.
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| | satisfaction as our psychological
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| Catherine lamented;
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| | unconscious that Freud discussed. It is
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| "I'm one woman who did everything well.
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| | this spiritual unconscious that is so
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| I stayed out of trouble in school,
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| | often neglected by persons who live with
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| married the right guy and joined a great
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| | secular values and too pragmatic choices
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| company when it started taking women
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| | - which is why we combine the
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| seriously. I've made sound business
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| | psychological and the philosophical in
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| decisions along the way and shall surely
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| | our books and articles. After all, every
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| become a V P before I'm forty. I live in
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| | society from primitive clans with
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| a home my parents think a mansion and
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| | be-feathered shamans chanting spells
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| have two beautiful children. I do a job
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| | around campfires, to building mysterious
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| thousands envy. Obviously, I have
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| | Stonehenge, to completing towering
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| everything. Right? Wrong! Much of my
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| | European cathedrals, and even attending
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| life feels incomplete and caught up in
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| | Billy Graham's relational campaigns, has
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| trivia. My kids are rebelling with sex
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| | been trying to meet the spiritual
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| and drugs and I'm almost certain my
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| | yearnings throbbing within every human
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| husband is having an affair with a little
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| | soul. These hungers are universal and
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| twerp. I feel deeply dissatisfied at the
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| | repressing or neglecting them causes
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| most inopportune times, as if nothing
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| | spiritual bankruptcy or what Frankl
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| counts except for my sixty hour work
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| | called existential frustration.
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| weeks and paying for the house and the
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| | We have researched the emotional and
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| Mercedes. There must be more to life than
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| | spiritual aspects of satisfaction for
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| this but when my therapist asks what's
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| | half a century, drawing from brilliant
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| missing, I can't even tell her. I worry
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| | existential philosophers, theologians and
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| that I'm going mad to feel this way
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| | psychologists of whom Soren Kierkegaard,
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| despite my accomplishments in the company
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| | Carl Jung, Karen Horney, Tielhard de
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| and my prestige in my community. What do
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| | Chardin, Otto Rank, Melanie Klein, Paul
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| I do when I've won everything I've ever
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| | Tillich, Viktor Frankl, H. Orton Wiley,
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| wanted and it isn't enough to keep me
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| | Laura Perls, Rollo May and Carl Rogers
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| happy?"
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| | are representative. Wayne Dyer, who
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| What, indeed -- and what of the many
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| | remains a contemporary existential
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| persons who fall short of her
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| | seminar leader on Public Television, has
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| achievements, who fear life is passing
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| | an excellent approach for improving
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| them by, who feel stuck in their careers
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| | spiritual health. We have learned beyond
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| or frustrated in their relationships?
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| | a shadow of a doubt, that fulfillment is
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| They are not mentally ill but virtually
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| | never won directly but always the by
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| always spiritually maladjusted through
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| | product of a maturing life-style. We
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| secular values, negative attitudes, low
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| | didn't stop with concepts, however, but
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| expectations, immature beliefs and often
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| | hammered the issues of life out in the
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| irresponsible choices. They are left
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| | real world, getting down into the mud and
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| wondering how they can find consistent
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| | blood of existence with people
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| satisfaction. Our work answers
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| | experiencing differing degrees of
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| Catherine's troubling question along with
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| | emotional and spiritual failures. We
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| a great many more. Our emphasis is on
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| | have also discovered that human existence
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| joyful living through spiritual values
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| | can indeed be filled with purpose and
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| (or ethical virtues), positive attitudes,
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| | permanence for perceptive women and men.
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| high expectations, mature beliefs and
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| | However, there is a major Catch - 22 in
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| responsible choices. We have learned as
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| | the search for consistent satisfaction.
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| Viktor Frankl, Karen Horney, Karl Jung
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| | There is nothing automatic or universal
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| and many others taught, that the
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| | about succeeding in our quest. There is
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| unfortunate souls who are suffering from
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| | no single approach to Fulfillment with a
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| neurotic ailments and existential
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| | capital F that meets every person's
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| alienation, are those persons who have
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| | needs. Each one of us has to open
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| failed to find a consistent sense of
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| | personal channels by applying our own
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| meaning that assures their satisfaction
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| | powers along lines of excellence. We
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| through life's several stages. We have
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| | must move beyond the theoretical to the
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| also learned that few persons are going
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| | practical.
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| to simply get lucky and have fulfillment
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| | Despite the assumptions of so many
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| handed to them on a solver platter. Life
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| | persons, our search can seldom be for
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| is filled with many quid-pro-quos in
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| | happiness per se. Happiness is a fleeting
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| which we must do our part wisely and well
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| | emotion that will always fade and
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| to have life become consistently
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| | eventually vanish. We all need times of
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| satisfying as a by-product of our
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| | joy, obviously, but it is far more
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| responsible choices.
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| | satisfying to create lasting sources of
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| Obviously this means that those persons
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| | meaning in our lives - in those places of
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| doing the best they can - while still
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| | the heart where we belong, connected to
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| feeling stuck in their careers,
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| | persons with whom we share love,
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| dissatisfied with their love
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| | acceptance and support.
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| relationships and anxious that life is
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| | We all hold values, attitudes,
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| passing them by, must learn better ways
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| | expectations and beliefs and make choices
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| of managing their existence. Of course,
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| | that are relevant to our lives. These
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| that is what this book is all about!
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| | key aspects of life affect us according
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| This approach was first conceived when
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| | to our inherited traits, environmental
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| Jard was psychology professor and
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| | experiences and formative choices.
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| convocations chairman at Olivet College.
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| | Naturally, not one of us is exempt from
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| He had Viktor Frankl flown from Vienna to
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| | civilization's pressures. All men and
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| the campus to lecture and counsel about
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| | women inherit homosapien angst and rage,
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| his approach to psychospiritual healing.
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| | resist childhood socialization, and
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| Viktor had written several outstanding
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| | struggle to break the apron strings
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| books, including MAN'S SEARCH FOR
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| | during adolescence and to remove
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| MEANING, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND EXISTENTIALISM
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| | emotional scar tissue in the unconscious
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| and THE DOCTOR AND THE SOUL. The
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| | aspects of our minds. We are indeed
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| Viennese psychiatrist and psychologist
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| | forced to deal with the tragic elements
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| called his approach Logotherapy - which
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| | of suffering, guilt, rage and death. It
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| means spirit healing - for existentially
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| | doesn't end there, fortunately. We are
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| frustrated or spiritually bankrupt souls.
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| | pleased to report that despite many
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| Viktor, who spent more than three years
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| | existential frustrations,
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| in Nazi Germany's brutal death camps, was
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| | spiritually-minded persons who convert
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| spiritually transformed by his covenant
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| | their earthly meanderings into
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| relationship with God despite the
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| | purposeful, love-filled quests can enjoy
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| suffering and fear surrounding him, into
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| | consistent fulfillment. Women and men
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| a virtual saint. Even in that anteroom
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| | who cultivate faith, hope and love do
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| of hell, with God's help, he found
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| | find joy even as waves of complex change
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| meaning by helping others survive. In
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| | batter society relentlessly.
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| our distinctive religious approach to
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| | We recently had this approach confirmed
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| Logotherapy, you shall study crucial
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| | by an unlikely source in an entirely
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| presentations and use revealing reality
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| | unexpected setting. The carnival barker
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| checks, self-focus exercises and powerful
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| | on the Minnesota State Fair Midway didn't
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| projects to consider serving society
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| | look like a philosopher. His fingernails
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| well, worshipping devoutly, relating
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| | were ragged and dirty and a broken tooth
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| warmly, persevering bravely, learning
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| | gave him a cynical and somewhat sinister
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| wisely and playing enthusiastically. New
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| | leer. Tough-Tony Gallo seemed too
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| insights can lead to spiritual values,
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| | rough-hewn a man from whom to learn much
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| positive attitudes, high expectations,
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| | about a meaningful life. Nevertheless,
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| mature beliefs and responsible choices
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| | Tony went right to a major aspect of
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| that enhance life for persons who apply
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| | fulfillment when he said;
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| them wisely.
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| | "Life's sorta like ridin' a bicycle
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| This approach when piloted some hundred
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| | uphill. Ya gotta keep pedalin' along or
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| times in business organizations,
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| | ya gotta stop and get off. There ain't
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| churches, professional associations and
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| | no reverse gear and ya gotta keep yer
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| universities, often received a standing
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| | balance."
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| ovation from the many participants. The
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| | How marvelously well expressed! There
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| authors won a 3.68 evaluation with it on
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| | you have it - much knowledge and wisdom
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| a one to four scale for years. We have
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| | in a nutshell! Tough Tony had just
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| learned, in our presentations that range
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| | relieved Jard of six dollars in a futile
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| from hour long church forum lectures, to
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| | attempt to win a stuffed panda for a
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| business seminars, to three day summer
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| | granddaughter at his milk bottle-toss
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| college classes, that participants are
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| | game. Neither Jard's arm nor his aim is
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| indeed fascinated with our materials.
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| | what either was in his youth but he was
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| And while we are not entirely unbiased,
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| | delighted with the transaction. After
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| we feel this interest is the result of
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| | all, in these days of expensive therapy,
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| our addressing vital human needs that are
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| | that was a bargain price for such
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| seldom considered in commercial seminars
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| | excellent counsel about living
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| or even religious classes - despite
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| | successfully. As our philosophical
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| their importance to each human soul. We
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| | friend with dirty nails so succinctly
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| are dealing in applied Logotherapy - the
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| | said, a satisfying life has an ongoing
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| healing of the human spirit through a
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| | flow that must be embraced if we are to
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| covenant relationship with God the Cosmic
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| | find consistent meaning and belonging
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| Creator.
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| | with the powers God through nature has
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| If you or a loved one faces career,
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| | given us to invest in spiritual growth.
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| relationship, emotional or spiritual
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| | To sum this up even more succinctly than
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| challenges that leave you dissatisfied
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| | Tony did, we use this simple equation;
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| and feeling stuck in life, worried that
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| | PERSONAL FULFILLMENT = f (Heredity x
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| life itself is passing you by, that your
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| | Environment x Choices)
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| life is bereft of meaning, this can be
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| | Everything we inherit from all of our
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| the most valuable single experience of
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| | ancestors is acted on by our environment
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| your life. It can and will assist anyone
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| | whether it is good or bad. And that
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| seeking consistent fulfillment in many
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| | product is multiplied by the excellent,
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| special ways - that is, helping the
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| | mediocre or disastrous choices we make
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| reader find satisfying sources of lasting
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| | about life and our place in it.
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| meaning in those places of the heart
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| | Through these articles, we use the word
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| where he or she belongs.
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| | existential to mean that something
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| For a generation we, Jard and Roberta
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| | relates to the cultural and personal
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| DeVille, have written such psychology
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| | life-style humans choose to follow or
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| books as NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST, LOVERS
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| | have thrust upon them by society. It has
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| FOR LIFE, LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY,
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| | nothing to do with the grim European
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| LEADERSIP POWER (Japanese), LOS BUENOS
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| | philosophy of Existentialism taught by
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| TAMBIEN GANAN (Spanish), THE PASTOR'S
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| | Sartre, Camus and others in the desperate
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| HANDBOOK ON INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, THE
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| | decades of the World Wars, the murderous
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| PSYCHOLOGY OF WITNESSING and others. One
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| | Holocaust and the long, debilitating Cold
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| religious denomination, one of the
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| | War. To us, existential just means that
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| fastest growing church organizations
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| | something being discussed is related to
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| around the world, used our PASTOR'S
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| | the life-style we follow.
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| HANDBOOK and WITNESSING as study guides
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