The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how