The truth as it 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. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may know bliss, be it only a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
A Man's Search for MeaningLove is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features of the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him. The loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities.
A Man's Search for MeaningBeing human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
A Man's Search for MeaningThe more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all
A Man's Search for MeaningEveryone has his own specific vocations or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment, which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
A Man's Search for MeaningMental health is based on a certain degree of tension between what one has already achieved and what one still out to accomplish, our that gap between. What one is and what one should become. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
A Man's Search for MeaningIt is well know that an enforced community life, in which attention is paid to everything one does at all times, may result in a na irresistible urge to get a way, at least for a short while.
A Man's Search for Meaning