Your Soul's Reason for Being
Gerry writes:
'I have just been reading the latest ezine and I am sure I need
help trying to clarify some of the points listed in the ezine.
I am all for living a life on purpose once I have explored the
big question of why we are here. And I know people make up their
own minds what their life on purpose should be. But how do you
deeply know that your path is the correct path and has been
correctly set?
Simply purposeful play sounds and sharing this attitude sounds
great but if everyone is going in different directions it can be
difficult when people who do not have a life of purpose attitude
and try to cause trouble for those of us who would like to just
live a simple purposeful life.
Your ezines always appear to be very positive and is always a
great thing.'
--==++----
My Reply:
Thanks again for your message. Let's see if I can be of
assistance along your own Purposeful Path. The Life On Purpose
Perspective suggests that a person's life purpose is an
overarching meaning for their life -- that which you as a
soul/spiritual being came here to earth to be and to experience.
Said another way, your life purpose is a way of being that you
bring to the world and to all that you do. In fact, what you do
becomes the way in which you express who you are -- i.e. your
life purpose.
Now, about those 'other people' who aren't living on purpose. I
suggest that we are all here to live on purpose and some of us
are more awake and aware to this than others. I look to my
garden for a metaphor. I notice that some of the tomatoes on the
vine are small and green, others larger and still green and
still others starting to turn red. The red tomatoes are no more
a tomato than a green one, just further along in the process of
life. The same is true for people along the process of living on
purpose. Our job, us 'redder tomatoes' is to give room to others
-- grant them being at whatever stage of development they are.
It's the universal law of allowing, or said another way,
accepting people as they are, while at the same time knowing who
we are, and not holding our light under a bushel basket.
I've noticed that as I've continued to live my own life purpose
I attract to me all the resources necessary to continue that
process, and that includes other purposeful people. Since I've
taken on the mission to assist others in clarifying their life
purpose, I also attract 'green tomatoes in the process of
turning red.' No one can really stop another person from living
true to their life purpose since from the Life On Purpose
Perspective a life purpose is a way of being. It is not my view
that people are going 'in different directions.' We are all
going in similar directions. We are just at different stages of
development and going at our own rate, and then expressing where
we are in the process of living on purpose in our own unique
ways.
Thanks. Your allowing me to offer this to you has given me the
opportunity to explore this further for myself and thus become
clearer as well.