The human being has the most highly evolved capacity for knowing all of Being, all of Reality. It can know and embrace and be this transpersonal Reality. This whole Reality is the life of love. We human beings long to surrender ourselves to something great and be taken up into its greatness. A human being's measure is the measure of that to which he or she surrenders to and serves.
Some people surrender only to their own imagined self-interest.
Some surrender to some social ideal, others to beauty, to love of family, to religious faith. And yet so much that human beings surrendered to in the past have been relativized or discredited. We are in a time when many people are trying to invent their own values and beliefs because those that exist are no longer convincing to their souls. A few people sense that the purpose of life is to give one's life as a gift to Being itself. Only the strongest personalities are able to do this.