It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

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