John Updike was once asked why — for an ad, I think, like a whiskey ad or some crazy thing — why are we here? Why do we live? Sounds like a ridiculous question, but he had an instant answer for it. He said, “We’re here to give praise.” We’re here to give praise.
– Adam Gopnik, On Being interview with Krista Tippett, November 2015
This reminds me of the Kahlil Gibran’s poem “you should not say God is in my heart, rather say I am in the heart of God”.