The Aim of LifeThe aim of life, its only aim, is to be free. Free of what? Free to do what? Only to be free, that is all. Free through ourselves, free through others; free to be sad, to be in pain; free to grow old and die. This is what our soul desires, and this freedom it must have; and shall have.

Source: Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. Blyth