Dharma and direction
The Gita's command is to act according to your duty without clinging to results. Deida's modern echo: know your deepest purpose and organize your life beneath it, or every relationship becomes a place to hide.
Frankl's inversion
Frankl found that men survived the camps not by seeking comfort but by carrying a reason. Meaning is not the reward for a good life; it is the load-bearing wall.
The one-line test
If you cannot state your mission in one sentence a twelve-year-old understands, you do not yet have one — you have a mood.