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Love has many definitions and applications in concept and practice.

Love offers great insight into the human quest for meaning.

Love involves extending beyond oneself and caring about the highest good of others.

We are living in a very uncertain and turbulent time, one characterized in many places around the world by unbridled anger, conflict, division, intolerance, and outright hate. Against such a fragile and highly sensitive backdrop, I believe that it is a good time to reflect upon and discuss the relationship between “love” and the human quest for meaning.

Viktor Frankl’s Perspective on Love and Meaning

In this regard, the world-renowned psychiatrist, existential philosopher, and Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl’s holistic view on the importance of our intuitive capacity for love offers great insight into how meaning in everyday life—and even at work—reveals itself.

“Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.... The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

“Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.... The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

Frankl wrote these words in his classic bestseller, Man’s Search for Meaning,1 a book that was first........

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