Advanced Mind Health: Blog 1001

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Blog 1001

I like the following quote from Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl who was an Austrian Psychiatrist. He was imprisoned as a Jew in Hitler's concentration camps during World War II and wrote this now famous book based on his experiences and the system of psychotherapy he developed out of them. He believes that man can endure and overcome if he can find meaning in his suffering. The following quote is about the power of love to transform individuals.

THE MEANING OF LOVE, page 134 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

"Love 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 in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true."

This kind of love is sometimes referred to as "Universal Love" or "Christlike Love" or "Unconditional Love." This is not the same kind of love that blinds a person to the faults of another or even excuses these faults. This love only enables us to see another person clearly and to see what is potential and could be actualized or brought into being within this person.

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