See Beauty & Hang On To Your Corner of Freedom

From Wayne Dyer’s book, The Power of Intention:

I was deeply honored to be on a panel with Viktor Frankl in 1978 in Vienna, Austria.  I strongly recollect that he shared with me and the audience his assertion that it’s the ability to see beauty in all of life’s circumstances that gives our lives meaning.  In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, he describes a bowl of filthy water with a fish head floating in it, given to him by his Nazi captors in a concentration camp during WWII.  He trained himself to see beauty in this meal, rather than focus on the horror of it.  He attributed his ability to see beauty anywhere as a vital factor in surviving those horrific camps.  He reminds us that if we focus on what’s ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives.  By choosing to hang on to one’s corner of freedom even in the worst situations we can process our word with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.

I love the way Mother Teresa described this quality when she was asked, “What do you do every day in the streets of Calcutta at your mission?”  She responded, “Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.”