Prisoners of our Thoughts.
Prisoners of our Thoughts hurts our Development. Viktor Frankl’s life is well known to anyone who has read “Man’s Search for Meaning”. We all want to have a meaningful life, filled with purpose and no regrets. Dr. Frankl chooses his fundamental attitude, which he called his “coping maxim,”. And the coping mechanism in his psychiatrist toolkit become more meaningful and effective. But his decision to experience meaning under desperate circumstances enabled him to act on his own behalf as well as on behalf of others.
He had everything ready to leave Austria and his parents would not leave their home country. So this whole family got caught up in the Holocaust. Dr. Frankl was a Psychiatrist at this time and still was in the death camps with everyone else.
Knowing why we do things, however, is essential and is the beginning of real freedom and meaning in our lives. Why am I doing this? And why did I do this? Why will I do that? The words why tells us a lot about ourself. And if we delve deep enough, we will reach the two things that motivate us most: love and conscience. Dr. Frankl described these as intuitive capabilities; things we do without thinking, things that define us at our deepest level. Besides the truth is that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Because it is the most ultimate feeling to love others and know that others love us. And it gives us comfort, peace, and joy. Plus many other feelings.
Remember, the Prime Creator made us out of Love and to Love others and be Loved.
Be that person who loves everything good, talks of love, gives of love and loves being loved. And to get to that place forgives Self and everyone, and wants success for Self and everyone.
Prisoners of our Thoughts hurts our Development.