Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. I have no idea how I missed this book for so many years. Wish I read this long long time ago. I have never read a such a powerful book unveiling the potential of human spirit.
The sufferings we endure in our life from the pain is so mediocre and irrelevant when compared to what he went through in the concentration camps. But yet the hope and optimism he had for life was the key to his physical and mental survival. Adversity brings the worst and best in us. It's all in how we perceive it psychologically and learn to see the best in the worst. It not only makes life worth living but we also become an inspiring example, a paragon per se and make the world a better place one step at a time. No words of mine will do justice to this book. Just READ IT!
Love is the simplest truth and the highest wisdom of life. This is exactly what helped Frankl's to keep breathing and take one day at a time in-spite of living in hell on earth:
"A thought transfixed me: 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. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impact: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - a honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of images he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angles are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."
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