Frankl wrote: “… people forget that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually, beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp’s difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence.” What is Creator’s perspective?

Here he describes that fork in the road that separates the believer from the non-believer. This is why working at your faith, building your belief in the divine, and practicing a frequent and at least daily interchange, much as you would want to talk to your best friend on a frequent basis even if you could not meet up in person, this is restorative but it also helps maintain the fortress, the foundation of inner strength that has come to define who you are and all you know, so as to feel competent, capable, and ready for anything that comes your way. When there is a weak foundation, a weak or absent link to the divine, you will be on your own, and where will you draw strength from if the physical world around you is working against you? This is perhaps the starkest way to describe the extremes one can experience as a consequence of neglecting their spiritual nature and allowing their connection to the divine to wither. It is already corrupted and diminished, done by others. It is only through teaching and an inner intuitive awareness of the truth of the divine that allows people to have faith to begin with. This is a test of you and a dilemma, a problem to solve, and can only be done through standing strong. Those who still have an intuitive link to the divine will rise to the occasion when challenged in the way that happened to Viktor Frankl, and it will give them a lifeline to persist even under the direst of circumstances. Those qualities that make someone a champion are divine in nature and this tells you all you need to know of how to reach for greatness.