Youth has many advantages

over old age:

It contains the seed

of it’s own future.

But one thing

youth never has:

the collected harvest

of a mature life.

Elisabeth Lukas

 

People may be forsaken, lonely,

the loneliness depresses them,

and yet there is a brilliant

blue

sky.

 

People may be desperate, sad,

sadness envelops them,

and yet these is

the rich,

warm

earth.

 

People may be lost, guilty,

guilt is overpowering,

and yet there is

Grace

every-

where.

Elisabeth Lukas

 

I hope you don’t mind a few weeks of Dr. Lukas’s poetry – as I am writing this, several weeks in advance, I am preparing for what I hope will be a very meaningful trip with my daughter and members of her class.  I doubt I will have much time to write while away, but I hope to breathe deeply of meaningful experiences to share with you when I return.  – Dan

Dr. Elisabeth Lukas is one of Viktor Frankl’s most prominent students, and a leader in the application and research of Logotherapy through out the world.  Although a prolific author, only a few of her works have been translated into English.  The Therapist and the Soul and Meaning in Suffering are two of her powerful works that have been translated by my friend Dr. Charles McLafferty and Purpose Research, LLC.

 

If you would like to study Dr. Lukas’s ideas, and those of Viktor Frankl, more deeply, take a look at The Meaning Project: Logotherapy & the Psychology of Meaning, now available free for the first month.