Document Page: Essays on the Millennium/2000: SEARCHING FOR PURPOSE: Spiritualism is on the rise as baby boomers seek meaning and direction in their lives: Boomers simply carry over the same cravings and expectations of modern life, by seeking in spirituality the next fix to overcome ennui. An increasing number now recognize that they are sated but unfulfilled, and are calling the modern project of autonomy and prosperity, and the collective destiny of progress, into question. Some philosophers are talking a great deal again about the nature of happiness, saying the Greeks had it right in their noble images of human striving fulfilled in self-sufficiency and exultation in achievements. But perhaps happiness as striving is not the be-all or end-all. The genuine test of happiness, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, is gratitude. Maybe what we are all searching for is a little sanctity.