The Soul of a Chef

Babette's FeastBabette's FeastA film by Gabriel AxelA film by Gabriel Axel

A Parable of TraumaA Parable of Trauma

Rev. Dr. Lise WorthingtonRev. Dr. Lise Worthington

The only journey is the one within.- Rainer Maria Rilke

Frankl – “According to logo therapy, sickness can originate in our noos; but unlike our body and psyche, the noos, our spirit can never become sick.”

If you call forth what is in you , it will save you, if you do not, it will destroy you.

- St Thomas Aquinas

Frankl – “Self distancing allows one to view themselves from the outside; to become observers of themselves and their situations or circumstances.Paradoxical Intention (utilizing humor).”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

- Worthington

Meaning: 1. Creating a work or a deed. 2. Experiencing something or encountering someone (truth, beauty, nature). 3. The attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Author Unknown

Frankl: “The more one forgets himself or herself -- by giving to a cause to serve, or another person to love–the more human he/she is and the more he/she actualizes. In other words, self actualization is possible only as a side effect of self- transcendence.”

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is

represented? In the end you might merely be someone mimicking an actor.

- Friederick Nietzche

Frankl: “The importance of reaching new heights of personal meaning through self transcendence: the application of positive effort, technique, acceptance of limitations and wise decisions.”

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in

the act of creation.- Author unknown

Frankl: “In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.

- Meister Echart

Frankl: “Making personal choices and taking responsibility for them.”

Love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is art.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frankl: “Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and one should become.”

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

- Hebbel

“It is terrible and unbearable to an artist...to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best...through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!”

- Isak Dinesen

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

“For your sake?” she replied. “No. For my own.”

She rose from the chopping block and stood up before the two sisters.

“I am a great artist!” she said.

She waited a moment and then repeated: “I am a great artist, Mesdames.”

Again for a long time there was a deep silence in the kitchen.

Then Martine said: “So you will be poor now all your life, Babette?”

“Poor?” said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor. We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.”