Book: About freedom and inner strength of a man. Page 2

This book is not just a memoir of a Holocaust survivor, it is an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and resilience, mercy and healing. It shows that we can always choose what life teaches us and how to relate to what is happening.

Memory - the territory of the sacred. Likewise, the memory of the enchanted place, a place inhabited by ghosts, relentlessly pursuing me. My anger, grief and guilt circling like hungry vultures, digging in the same old bones.

I'm afraid bad things happen to everyone. We can not change. Look into your birth certificate - it says that life will be easy? No.

Suffering is inevitable. Suffering is universal. But the response to the suffering of everyone.

We can change your behavior by changing your feelings, and to change the feelings, change the thoughts.

Live emotions - the opposite of depression.

When we drive their truth and their stories underground, secrecy becomes our trauma and our prison. The pain is not reduced, and that we refuse to accept, it becomes something of a brick wall where you don't break free. When we do not allow ourselves to mourn their losses, wounds and disappointments, we are doomed to relive them again and again. Freedom begins when we learn to accept what happened. Freedom means that we pick up the courage to dismantle his prison brick by brick.

Many of us need a dictator - benevolent, but a dictator, - that was for someone else to blame so you can say: "You forced me to do it. It is not my fault." But we can't spend my life hiding under a false umbrella and then complaining that you got wet. A good definition of victimhood is when your attention is focused outward, when you are looking for in the outside world with someone else, that someone was to blame for your current circumstances and that someone has identified you and the goal and destiny and responsible for your dignity.