To: Jamestown1630
There are only two races of men: the decent and the indecent.”
—Viktor Frankl.
To: SoCal Pubbie
63 posted on
06/02/2018 8:54:15 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: SoCal Pubbie
I had not been aware of Viktor Frankl, thank you for bringing him to my attention. An extraordinary life, and his spiritual understanding helped him survive the unthinkable:
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 impart: 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 an honorable way in such a position Man can, through loving contemplation of the image 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 angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."
64 posted on
06/02/2018 9:21:56 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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