Friday, 19 September 2014

Is there any Purpose or Meaning in our Lives? Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire



As Frankl trudges through snow for miles with his fellow prisoners, his mind turns to his wife, a prisoner at another camp at Auschwitz.  In spite of her absence, she is more real and luminous than the people around him: “For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire…The salvation of man is through love and in love…It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all,  ceases somehow to be of importance.,,.”Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death” (pp 49-50)
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 Viktor Frankl; ‘Man’s Search for Meaning.’ pp 49-50) 

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