[thechat] Term for a main goal?

[deacon]

On 5 Apr 2004 at 11:34, Wesley Mason wrote:

> I've been racking my brains for 20 minutes trying to think of a term I 
> once heard, and used, for a seemingly unattainable goal that you spend 
> a good portion of your time chasing, and when you finally step back and 
> look at things you see the way forward to completing it, and in doing 
> so change your perspective a little on everything else.
> I was thinking something like "white horse" or "white eagle" but those 
> don't seem right.
> To be honest think I heard it in a movie like the media whore I am.

You heard it in an ad like the radio whore that you are. 

"Epiphany". 

Doggoned, it took *me* twenty minutes to come up with the word, too.

deke