“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
Frankl wrote this in the context of what keeps human beings anchored to life. As a psychiatrist who had lost everything — his wife, his parents, his manuscript — he came to believe that love was not sentiment but the deepest form of perception: seeing a person not as they are, but as they could become.
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