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.