“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” —Viktor Frankl Creating meaning is a learnable skill that depends on the objects of our focus. Focusing on unimportant ...

Reincarnation is a core belief of the Hindu faith. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains that changing one’s body is like changing one’s clothes. I accept that possibility as I accept the idea of a ...

There is a growing consensus among social scientists and philosophers alike that a sense of life’s meaning and purpose is a key aspect of flourishing, and one that is not reducible either to happiness ...

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...

Finding a sense of meaning in life is consistently linked to lower levels of depression across hundreds of independent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I address a frequently voiced assertion ...

Arthur Brooks’s new book is enjoyable, smart, and often wise, but a search for true meaning must bring us to Christ. Sometimes this looks like basic fidelity to Scripture, which depicts Christ as the ...

The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument. To this we might add a corollary: there is a certain kind of conservative pundit who has never really had a ...