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One of the best you will ever read
This is an easy to read book, which managed to make profound points about life, pain, and fate.I enjoyed reading the first part of the book and learning about what it was like to be in such a hellish place (a concentration camp), and yet still being able to be positive about life.What more can I say than its an excellent book?

I learned: All the Auschwitz survivors, including the author, had something significant yet to do with their lives!
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING
fascinating!
this is simply a must read for those interested in the human experience.Some of the positions concluded in this book may not be the only way to think on the issues involved, but still, this book is a great psychological workout with deep insights. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Austria    2. Biography    3. General    4. Holocaust    5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    6. Personal narratives    7. Psychological aspects    8. Psychologists    9. Psychology    10. Psychology of Religion    11. Philosophy    12. Philosophy / General    13. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

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Fascinating and thought provoking
There is something to be said of a person who can go through a horrific journey such as the atrocities of Auschwitz and recall it with such clarity in order to help others. I was completely emotionally overwhelmed by the first half of the book-which is a narrative of what he experienced and fascinated with the next half which is an explanation of logotherapy.
viktor frankl wrote this book in 8-9 days; you can read it in 2 ~
a Best Seller through the 1950s and 1960s, this is one of the 20 top books to read before you try to live your life...
A must read!
I'm surprised there aren't a lot more reviews on this book. It might just be the best book I've ever read (and it's really short and easy to read).
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Historical - Holocaust    3. Personal Memoirs    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Counseling    6. Social Psychology    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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perfect for our time
I have owned this book for many years and always find it new and applicable to our current times. I purchase copies to give to friends and they all love it too... it works on many levels to understand basic truths of Christianity without religious hype.

Great Book
Does an exalent job in opening your mind to a new perspective in life, bringing your more at peace with yourself and things around you.

Inspired
This Sermon by Jesus is what the Christian aspires to be through the help of the Holy Spirit.This book helped me to accept that I can have God's help and gifts, even now while still on earth, and take Jesus' teaching more to heart. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bible - Study - New Testament    2. Inspirational - General    3. Lord's Prayer    4. New Testament Commentary    5. Poetry    6. Religion    7. Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality    8. Sermon on the Mount    9. Spirituality - General    10. Religion / General    11. The Bible   

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Robert Fulghum is My Mentor!
And he doesn't even know it! The first book I ever wrote, I wrote the way I did because of Robert Fulghum. I adore his writing, his humor, the way he tells a story - his life is interesting, his stories are amusing but also teach a lesson. His book was an inspiration for me to write my own! You won't be disappointed if you read this book. It's like a series of short stories, each one poignant and meaningful, but some of them will have you rolling they are so funny! I love this book!

A Touching Collection of Stories
I really enjoyed this light reading, and I admire the author's youthful outlook on life.I strongly believe that if everyone were to read this book and apply its simple principles, the world would be a better place and at peace.

Kindergarten learning
The best part of this book is the famous poem:
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Subjects:  1. General    2. Inspirational    3. Motivational & Inspirational    4. Personal Growth - General    5. Self-Help    6. Self-Help / General   

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The best I've found!
I own the 3rd edition of this book.I don't know if the comments I have will still apply to this edition, but here they are anyway.
Muddled
I have just suffered through this book for a college grammar course and I was left in a muddle by this text. This book made me believe I understood it all, until I realized the authors did not discuss the exceptions such as the parallel uses of words listed under one category that really could be in two or three categories. Sometimes the authors gave such unclear explanations that I was left with many questions as to when the rule would really apply. And the organization of the book seemed backwards. Some of the end chapters needed to be discussed at the beginning. But what really upset me was the dishonesty. Giving us the line that descriptive grammar was so much better than prescriptive grammar (arbitrary rules), they inferred that language is like arithmetic, that there are rules to describe how language works. Unfortunately language is not so precise. Sometimes 2 plus 2 did not equal four, as their rule stated. There were many ways to interpret words and fit them into their forms and functions, yet this ambiguity was not admitted. Some of grammar will always be prescriptive. After believing I understood grammar, this book painted my knowledge of grammar in a confusing shade of gray.

Good Book, Good Grammar, Happy Tummy
I'm a fiction writer. And there are four books within reach of my writing desk. The most recent addition has been Martha Kolln's Understanding English Grammar. This bad boy has it all, folks. If you're like me, you get tripped up on lie and lay like the rest of us, and those kinds of words (and the rules underlying them) are at the very heart of what UEG sets out to clarify. I think I first went to Kolln's masterpiece for help with prepositions. I don't know who first introduced prepositions into the English language, man, but I'd like beat him with a wet dish rag!Read more

Subjects:  1. Composition & Creative Writing - General    2. English language    3. Grammar    4. Language    5. Language Arts & Disciplines    6. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    7. Linguistics    8. Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure    9. Language & Linguistics    10. Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing   

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Let Go!
You can't hold on to God if your hands are full of something else. This book has a simple message.Many of my struggles in life are internal. The book provies a simple, yet powerful answer...simple obedence as we follow after Christ.

Closer into God
This book met all my expectations. My husband and I both drew alot from it.

Let Go
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Subjects:  1. Christianity - Christian Life - General    2. Family/Marriage    3. Religion - Christian Life   

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Fulghum, author ofAll I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, turns his inspirational ponderings to therituals that fill and inform our daily lives, from brushing our teeth to thegrand rituals responding to birth, life, and death. ... Read more

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Absolutely Wonderful!
This book has so much hope, and exudes respect for human experience. In essence, rituals are spiritual and they are found all the time in the lives we lead.Until we recognize this we will be less aware of the spiritual magic of being alive each and every day.Fulghum illuminates this page by page.He has a very philosophical view of life that is quite contagious.His presentation style is much like Garrison Keillor in the audiotape of this book I listened to. Soothing, but it jolts us awake with spiritual truths time and time again. I also like his sense of humor and his accepting of life and death. Fantastic Book!
This book is a great book to remind you of why we do certain things in life but moreso, to stretch your imagination to think of how you could bring new meaning to significant points in your life.There is an exceptional chapter on weddings.I've read and reread this book a couple of times!a great buy.

For the stories and the attitude...
The only parts of my own wedding I regret are those I didn't personalize enough; I wish this book had been around back when I was doing my planning.Fulghum doesn't provide concrete suggestions, so much as great stories,illustrations of the impact of ritual on our lives (in which he standsfirmly with Jossepoh Campbell) and a wonderfully outrageous attitude towardmaking those rituals fit us, not the other way around.You won't take awayexact ideas of what to do for your own ritual, but you will get theinspiration to make your own ritual fit you as perfectly as some of theones described fit their participants.Read more

Subjects:  1. Conduct of life    2. Miscellanea    3. Religion    4. Religion (Specific Aspects)    5. Rites and ceremonies    6. Systems Of Ethics    7. Self-Help / General   

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from Copperhead Press
Chrisitianity is changing. In recent years and in rapidly increasing numbers, people have begun to understand the core message and purpose of Christianity in a different way. They have returned to its ancient roots and found a wisdom that speaks to their experience of faith and God today. According to this emerging vision, Christianity is primarily about transformation--about the transformation of the self through a living and dynamic experience og God, who is not separate from us but who is a part of us; and about the transformation of society. This amazing collection of fourteen essays, by some of the leading authors and creative thinkers in the field, covers every aspect of this developing Christianity. Key concepts--such as deep ecology, social justice, radical inclusion, and the importance of honoring the wisdom of other world faiths--are explored. So, too, are the implications for worship, music, pastoral care, and education. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Theology - General    2. Faith    3. Religion    4. Religion - Theology   

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Some of the most important principles in my life
Some of the most important principles in my life can be found in Dr. Viktor Frankl's The Doctor and the Soul. Without them, I along with my efforts to do good in the world would be lost in cynicism and depression. The book is an answer to Ecclesiastes' refrain, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." The book is an answer of hope.
Existential concerns
Existential frustration results in neurotic symptoms.Logotherapy is a specific therapy.Life is a task.Logotherapy is education toward responsibility.Psychoanalysis regards neurosis as limitation. deneurotization of humanity
Frankl's logotherapy enables people to once again discover the quality of life.Frankl believes that the first two schools of Viennese psychotherapy (Freud and Adler), which he calls the depth psychology, must be complimented the logotherapy - the height psychology.His therapy explores man's future instead of his past.Summarizing the Freudian concept as the will to pleasure and the Adlerian concept as the will to power, Frankl points out that man's basic motivation in life is neither pleasure nor power.Each person lives to discover the meaning of life and thereby to fulfill it - the will to meaning.Life is too meaningful for man to comprehend: it is essentially incomprehensible because it lies on a higher realm than that of man's. During the World War 2, Frankl survived four concentration camps including Auschwitz.In the camps, most of the inmates despaired that if they did not survive the camp, there was no meaning in suffering.Frankl, on the other hand, believed that if there was no meaning in suffering, there was no point in surviving the camp.In other words, the meaning of life was either unconditional regardless of the situation one was facing, or it was none at all.In the camps, Frankl would console his inmates telling them, "Someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours ?a friend, a wife, somebody alive or dead ?and he would not expect us to disappoint him.He would hope to find us suffering proudly ?not miserably ?knowing how to die.? He would explain to them that it was not them asking the meaning of life.It was life asking them the meaning, and they had to answer to it.What Frankl witnessed in the camps contradicted Freud's theory that if people were left without food for few days, their wants would be reduced to the common desire for food.While some inmates behaved according to their instincts, as Freud predicted, there were also others who lived up to this challenge.Frankl witnessed people who gave away their last piece of bread and others who organized religious activities, which resulted in execution if they were caught. One of logotherapy's techniques to help people discover values is to have them imagine their lives from their deathbeds and look back on them.During such exercises people often find that their current definition of success differs significantly from that on their deathbeds.They realize that they do not wish they had made more money, had more sex.It is interesting to note that virtually everyone points to relationship as their most cherished value.They wish that they had spent more time with people they care about. Logotherapy bases its therapy on the fact that man is a self-transcendent being.Psychotherapy which views man as a self-contained being is bound to fail.Frankl's favourite analogy regarding this matter is the eye.The function of the eye is to transcend itself: healthy eye does not see itself.The more it self-transcends, the more it actualizes itself.Only when there is a problem, such as glaucoma, does it notice itself.Man actualizes himself in the same way.Self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendent.Man is most human when he is occupied with something other than himself - when he is serving others?needs.The best time to take a picture of man is when he is least conscious of himself.How unnatural the picture looks when he is told to say cheese, to notice himself. Man neither lives by himself nor for himself.Man who views himself as a self-contained being is bound to live in despair.If he were to weigh the suffering and joy in life, he will find that the suffering outweighs by far.Every approach to suicide prevention needs to be grounded on the irreducibility of the unique human phenomenons and the self-transcendent nature of man.Only then can he find the meaning in suffering and thereby meet the challenge.He then realizes that life expects something from him in every situation.This "mere?realization in itself may even put an end to suicidal thoughts.Painting green the leaves of a dying tree lasts only so long, while watering its roots naturally turns them green.Frankl warns us of the serious consequences of reductionism.And his logotherapy thoroughly deestablishes the reductionism in psychotherapy and reinstitutes the human realm in psychotherapy.Logotherapy has a significant contribution to make in our world where more and more people are seeking psychotherapy to address this human realm.Logotherapy, then, is a psychotherapy for the man in the street ?all of us. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Existentialism    2. Logotherapy    3. Psychoanalysis    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Devout life does not require withdrawal from the world. This was the central insight of Saint Francis de Sales, a 16th-century priest whose Read more

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Living a devout Life
This book comes highly recommended to anyone who is interested in living a devout life and living according to what pleases God.

Everyone can live a Devout Life
This book is an instruction of devotion to those who live any kind of life, not just religious.So Saint Francis de Sales with that thought writes regarding an individual, which by desire of devotion wishes to the love of God. The instructions are broken down into five parts.
What More Can Be Said?
What more can be said about a work that during the four hundred years since its birth (1609) has never gone out of print, and is still garnering the highest praise from Christians of all denominations? A 'classic,' it truly is--'a masterpiece of mystical and devotional literature' (p. 13).
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How Much Would You Pay...
for a book that could help you discover your purpose in life? Exactly.God is not dead and reading this book helped me realize it. For that alone it is priceless. You owe it to yourself to add it to your cart now.Read it carefully enough and it could have a profound influence on your life too.

Underline it and re-read it
Holocaust survivor Frankl earned the right to teach us how to transcend ourselves and find "ultimate meaning". He was a contemporary of Freud who was able to take Freud to task for naturalism and reductionism which "undermines and erodes the enthusiasm of youth". Frankl has a lot to tell us about how to avoid the neurotic train wreck many of us are headed for. He points out that an existential vacuum (meaninglessness and emptyness) is growing in our culture as man "Now, knowing neither what he must do nor what he should do, he sometimes does not even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead, he wishes to do what other people do-which is conformism-or he does what other people wish him to do-which is totalitarianism." Frankl tells us "Man is responsible for fulfilling the meaning of his life." He contends "man is not he who poses the question, What is the meaning of life? But he who is asked this question, for life itself poses it to him. And man has to answer to life by answering for life; he has to respond by being responsible;" and "Being human means being confronted continually with situations, each of which is at once a chance and a challenge, giving us a "chance" to fulfill ourselves by meeting the "challenge" to fulfill it's meaning.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Logotherapy    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Psychiatry and religion    5. Psychology    6. Psychology of Religion    7. Psychotherapy    8. Psychotherapy - General    9. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory    10. Religion   

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How to be Worthy of One's Suffering
Frankl, who survived the concentration camps, writes that suffering is inevitable and that avoiding suffering is futile. Rather, one should be worthy of one's suffering and make meaning of it instead of surrendering to nihilism, bitterness and despair. He uses poetic, moving anecdotes from the concentration camps to illustrate those souls who find a deeper humanity from their suffering or who become animals relegated to nothing more than teeth-clenched self-preservation. Though not specifically religious, this masterpiece has a religious purpose--to help us find meaning. This book succeeds immeasurably.
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An interesting book.

A qualified search for truth
Red for Jesus' own words Controversial but necessary examination of the historical Jesus
The Jesus Seminar is an attempt to discover the sayings of the 'Historical' Jesus.
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Spirituality
Other than the Bible being the most important book to study, this book offers Mr Fox's interpretations of popular readings in the Bible. Its better than getting preached at by people who don't understand that the Bible is meant to be used as a manual for the living...not a "how to book" to avoid hell.

Wonderful Mediation Guide
This book has helped me to learn the art and blessing of daily meditation.

Change Your Thinking/Change Your Life
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is seeking a better life.These readings from the works of a spiritual leader help individuals find the way to achieve happiness and prosperity. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Christian Life - General    2. Devotional calendars    3. Inspirational    4. Inspirational - General    5. New Thought    6. Religion    7. Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works    8. Religion / General   

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Useful in a pastors study
This grammar is very helpful in a pastor's study (I am a pastor).It stays in my book bag most of the time. When doing sermon exegesis for the LXX or GNT I use Gordon Fee's "NT Exegesis" method. When preparing for my exegesis provisional translation of the text, I use Zerwick's Grammatical Analysis with the coded lessons to his Biblical Greek book.Then I use this book, BDF's Grammar, to read more indepth on the grammatical points that Zerwick describes.
Review of Funk and Blass
A well-written reference book which provides an in-depth look at Greek grammar. It serves as a wonderful aid in research or sermon preparation. Recommended for a specialist or someone with considerable familiarity withKoine Greek.

Review of Blass-Debrunner-Funk
BDF is still the standard Greek grammar of the New Testament even after four decades. It is in the process of being revised (by a revision committee of eight members), but the revision will take several more yearsto complete. We felt it needed revision because BDF presupposes that theaverage reader has had much exposure to classical Greek prior to working inthe New Testament. This is part of the reason that BDF is so hard to use:most NT students have not had exposure to classical Greek nowadays. Anotherreason is its cryptic nature, Teutonic abbreviations, and omission of'normal' grammar. Nevertheless, even with these shortcomings, everyresponsible exegete of the New Testament must own a copy of this goldmineof information.Read more

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This book is priceless