Purpose is to life what oxygen is to the body—not always noticed, yet indispensable. A life deprived of purpose does not merely become directionless; it gradually dissolves into an emptiness that philosophers have long described as an existential vacuum. We may continue to breathe, work, eat, and sleep, yet remain strangers to the very life we inhabit.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of existence is that while human beings have conquered the external world, they continue to lose the inner one. We have learned to measure distances between stars, yet often fail to measure the distance between ourselves and our own souls.There was a time when life unfolded with remarkable simplicity. The struggle was not to possess more, but to become enough. People sought to fill their bellies rather than exhibit what they had consumed; to clothe their bodies rather than glorify their garments;........

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