“It’s the end of the world as we know it” (and frankly, I’m not feeling so good about it).
It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I don’t feel so good about it at all. Back in the late ‘80s, R.E.M. gave…
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The Root of Purpose: Creation and Contribution Over Consumption: One Man’s Experiment
I left my comfortable life in the city, sold my house, quit my job, and went to the woods because I wished to strip away the superfluous,…
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Do You Work or Do You Have a Job?
There is a distinction between having a job and working. The difference may seem subtle at first glance, but it is fundamental. A job is a position…
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Service to Others is the Highest Calling
The highest calling of human existence is service—an obligation that binds each of us, not by choice, but by the mere fact of our being. It is…
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Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” – in his own words?
It is often said that suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition. But what is suffering, if not the test that reveals whether a man…
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Consume Only That Which Nourishes
To consume only that which nourishes—this is not a rule of moderation, nor a counsel of mere prudence, but a moral necessity. If we are to live…
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The Cost of Convenience: Reclaiming What We Lost
In the years following the great war, a change swept across our land. Men and women, once masters of their own fates, began to lean on others…
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True Meaning in Life is Found in Giving, Not Taking
As we have discussed before, the human condition is characterized by a relentless search for meaning. Across cultures and epochs, people have wrestled with questions about their…
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The Allegory of Untruth
In the dim glow of a neon skyline, the inhabitants of the towering city sat confined in their apartments, their faces illuminated by the screens before them.…
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The Weight of a Good Deed
He sat at the table with a coffee gone cold and a cigarette burned down to its last inch. The idea had come to him in the…