Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
~ Jack Kornfield in A LAMP IN THE DARKNESS: ILLUMINATING THE PATH THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES
A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through detours or art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which that person's heart first opened.