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In Search of Meaning
intellectual activity is a spiritual scientist. A physical
scientist may stop in his research at a certain point,
but for the spiritual scientist, even the saying ‘The
sky’s the limit’ becomes inadequate. It is only spiritual
achievement that can give you a sense of fulfilment.
Material fulfilment is seldom achievable, but spiritual
fulfilment is achievable to the ultimate extent.
In Search of Meaning
The criterion of having found God is that once you have
found Him, you should become completely at peace
n 1946, the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
IViktor Emil Frankl (1905 – 1997) authored a book
called Man’s Search for Meaning, and over the years, many
books with similar titles have been written. During
the more than three hundred years of the printing
press, billions of similar books have been published in
different languages and if a common title were to be
given to all these books, it would, without doubt, be: In
Search of Meaning.
A human being, by nature, is a seeker after meaning.
Everyone tries to find answers to his questions, for
everyone is born with an enquiring mind. And, it is
this quest which has resulted in the writing of so many
books on the subject, in both fictional and non-fictional
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