Sometimes it takes a wrenching life event to realize this truth. A cataclysmic event can force an individual out of his or her comfort zone and spur him or her to find greater meaning in life. For example, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, many of the high-powered Wall Street brokers and attorneys who worked at the World Trade Center and lost loved ones and colleagues were forced to ask: "What am I doing with my life?" (Cannon, 2002, p. 44) Many left comfortable jobs in search of more ethically satisfying work, no longer content to slave for eighty-hour weeks at work that only profited their own pocketbooks.

elopment," which yields inner happiness, can we find a sense of meaning in existence beyond the satisfactions of the pleasures of the

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