In 1993 the volume “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations” by David Viscott was published. The author was a psychiatrist who hosted a pioneering radio talk show in the 1980s and 1990s during which he provided counseling to callers.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
In an 1843 essay titled “Gifts” by the prominent lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson, he argued that a gift is only worthwhile if it is integrally related to the gift-giver 1
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.