Frankl wrote: “We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a beautiful and quite insightful observation, again reflecting the contrast between love and hatred. One who is downtrodden may eventually end up hating themselves for their plight. This is a consequence of evil spreading; it contaminates many who it touches and lowers through the suffering that will result, unless the person can find an escape or rescue within by having a link to the divine in some way or another to show them there is something better still, if only within their mind and heart and not in evidence around them. Those men Frankl speaks of who gave to others what was contributing to their own decline in the doing, were responding to an inner force of goodness because they still had a link to the divine and were able to mount thoughts of loving kindness when they themselves were equally in peril. This illustrates not only the strength of character of those selfless humans but the power of love to transcend any difficulty no matter how dire, how menacing. You can be sure that those who gave something of themselves to raise the spirits of their fellow inmates and keep them going, literally, among the living for a bit longer through their offering of food were, in effect, sharing a tremendous power within they enjoyed through being in divine alignment. They were raised up in the doing and were, in turn, rewarded by the divine with extra strength, endurance, resilience, and at least some inner contentment despite the horrific setting they lived within. So our perspective is that, in that circumstance, the giving were far better off than others who hoarded anything that could help them and ignored the plight of others out of fear. This illustrates an important reality, that someone in divine alignment can in fact become invincible. This is what people sense when they can find inner calm even when threatened by death from captors who have them at their mercy. They know who they are. Whenever you walk with God, you are safe, even if your physical body is at risk, because what truly matters is the soul and what you do with it. Are you honoring yourself or denying love in some way that will diminish you and perhaps diminish others as well in its absence?