I used to regard myself as a constant victim of circumstances for untold years, ensconced in a firmament of blame shifting that never would dissipate until I made an epiphanous discovery with my entire being - heart, body and mind - comprehending that I was fully answerable and indelibly responsible for every facet of my life’s creation. This marked the beginning of my foray into the profound truths elucidated by Viktor Frankl during his time in Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camps - where he arrived at the unfathomable grasp of a basic dictum: Our most profound human freedom exists within the domain of choosing attitudes.

Indeed, Frankl, with his expertise in psychiatry, forged this transcendent mantra in the crucible of unimaginable suffering. It behoves us to listen not merely to his life experience but also his Magnum Opus: Man’s Search for Meaning. Such was clearly reflected in the trajectory I chose to follow. Concomitantly, Frankl’s positing that work being done within consciousness was undoubtedly a crucial aspect of egoic self-readjustment stood as axiomatic reality whose pertinence I could scarcely overlook or understate.

Of course, it cannot be overstated that this is bound to result in inevitable, myriad challenges in what amounted to an ongoing odyssey within one’s psyche. Resistance would arise inexorably.

I, like countless others, was eternally pulled by the majestic Sufi and literary of an incomparable poet we reverence as Rumi - Come, no matter who you are—philosopher, fugitive, loving deceiver.

It incites us ceaselessly despite our errors - “It carries the soul / Like a bee on a garden tour.”

Encountering encouragement from fellow seekers, or soul travellers, serves no small purpose - those souls, be calmed in a God-scape, do congregate not within a tent of desolate hope.

A resounding chorus of gratitude well springs up within me at the prospect to articulate my unrelenting gratitude to numerous interlocutors whose enlightening tools continue to serve as my own personal divining rods amidst life’s labyrinth - Thank you is but a meagre approximation to how ardent and humbled my appreciation truly stands.

A crucial epiphany gradually dawned that I was obliged to assume full responsibility to question deeply all remnants of the conditioning we are immersed in from infancy on - for us to ascend to our full collective human awareness.

The world’s prevailing discord echoes out of my direct comprehension of societal patterns that manifest themselves as divisive, even violent constructs that deny intrinsically and utterly every person’s right to express their own genuine identity unfettered by any externally imposed, trans-national constructs of conformity; to then willingly conform - ah, such self-destructive nihilism undergirds nearly every structural institution of the very earth I tread, this microcosmos of the macrocosmos.

The profound spiritual wisdom, imparted when received with integrity of posture and sincerity of heart, elevates everything. My soul testifies before celestial courts for the invaluable tutelage I continue to glean throughout countless treatises penned by a veritable panoply of luminaries.

The singular fact that all manner of human expression continues, can be considered the work of Divine Providence - a palpable reality, if the universe or multiverse we inhabit is bereft of meaning - does seem illogical from a religious, spiritual, or scientific vantage point.

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