“We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason                or doesn't have a purpose.
In this respect it's unlike almost all other things   we do except perhaps making music and dancing.
When we make music we don't do it in order to reach                a certain point,
such as the end of the composition.
If that were the purpose of music then obviously the   fastest players would be the best.
Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as                          journey.
                                  when we play music    the playing itself
                                                    is the point.
And exactly the same thing is true in meditation.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is
always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
-Alan Watts