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Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning In Praise of Friction Why a life without resistance may be a life that goes nowhere, and what Bhutan learned when the screens arrived. 25 October 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning Measuring the Thing We Can't Point To A new scale tries to put numbers on existential well-being. On what we gain and lose when meaning becomes measurable. 18 October 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The Caregiver as the Fourth Pillar An Indian study reframes the person doing the caring as part of the cure, not a bystander to it. 20 September 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning Pointless on Purpose On play with no score, and why the least useful things may hold a life together. 6 September 20266 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The House That Never Gets Finished Self-built homes in Santiago are always being remade. What that says about a life that never quite settles. 16 August 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The Serious Business of Chasing Ghosts On the discipline of looking closely, and why careful attention might be a spiritual practice in disguise. 9 August 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The Images That Made Us Before we knew who we were, we drew ourselves into being. On art, meaning, and the mind that follows the hand. 2 August 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The Company That Keeps Loneliness Out A study of 376 young adults found purpose and social support cluster together, and change who feels alone. 26 July 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning The Black Teardrop Venus crosses the Sun once in a lifetime. What rare wonder does to our sense of scale and meaning. 19 July 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning When Meaning Is Something You Practise Poetry circles, color cards, and a cancer trial that missed: what recent research says about building a sense of purpose. 12 July 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning When Meaning Won't Come on Command A meaning-making program for advanced cancer patients didn't work as hoped. What that tells us about purpose. 5 July 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning When Meaning Doesn't Come on Schedule What two recent trials reveal about how purpose is built, and why the harder cases resist it. 28 June 20268 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning What Meaning Interventions Can and Can't Do Two trials tested whether you can deliberately build a sense of purpose. The results are honest about the limits. 14 June 20267 min read Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning When Purpose Becomes a Practice What recent research reveals about meaning-making, and why some interventions work better than others. 7 June 20268 min read