The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
[People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.]
I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies...
~ Oscar Wilde
