they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence.
They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.
Naturally only a few people were capable of reaching great spiritual heights.
But a few were given the chance to attain human greatness even through their apparent worldly failure and death,
an accomplishment which in ordinary circumstances they would never have achieved.
To the others of us, the mediocre and the half-hearted, the words of Bismarck could be applied:
“Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.”
Varying this, we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed.
Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.
One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph,
or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
Any attempt at fighting the camp’s psychopathological influence on the prisoner by psychotherapeutic or psychohygienic methods
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