The sharing of Profound life-changing experiences can bring value to other people’s lives.
Impactful shared experiences can critically affect people’s choices, life direction, meaning, and perspective. Others may find inspiration, hope, and see a path forward for change and healing, when the shared experience is one of loss, pain, trauma, and suffering, with the finding of meaning, purpose, and recovery. The experiences shared can be momentary, powerful, ecstatic, liberating, and enlightening, or painful, life-threatening, tragic, traumatic, and damaging. Two that shared the voice of their impactful personal experience in highly acclaimed writing were Rumi and Victor Frankl.
Rumi the Master of Poetic Expression and Giving Voice to Profound Moments
Rumi, one of the world’s most revered poets and communicators of the ecstatic mystical experience, beautifully expresses his release from the bonds of shallow, mundane mental preoccupations to the embrace of love and union with the divine. Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic who famously expressed his experiences of love, longing, and loss through mystical love. Rumi’s philosophy emphasized the practice of love to achieve union with the divine, with the guidance of spiritual mentors. His poetry, which incorporated various languages, gained popularity worldwide. His quotes encourage self-reflection, love, pursuing wisdom and profound insights into the universe’s interconnectedness, and the importance of using words wisely. Rumi quotes: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself (Rumi).” “Raise your words, not your voice (Rumi).”
Victor Frankl Giving Meaning to Tragic Loss and Suffering
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust World War II survivor. His traumatic, near-death experiences while in the Nazi concentration camps profoundly influenced his writing and the formation of his therapeutic approach called Logotherapy. Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” has been translated into 24 languages and had a profound impact on the field of psychology. It is a testament to his journey during his time in the concentration camp, amid extreme suffering that brought deep meaning and purpose to his survival and insight into the human psyche.
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