From "Taming the Mind" by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Basically, like the Buddha, we are trying to get to the truth. We're trying to find out the basic truth about what is going on so that we have some perspective on life. We want to be able to say, "I finally ifgured out my life. It's taken me a long time, but I've finally figured it out. I did. I've figured out what I'm going to do with my life, the meaning of my life. I've figured out the value of family, friendship, love, and work." Yet these questions are always on our mind: What is going on? What is it that makes me get up in the morning? What is it that takes me from conversation to conversation, from thought to thought, from pain to pain, from pleasure to pleasure, throughout my life?