what’s your life purpose?

 
 

So many people are looking for it: their big life purpose.

Becoming YOU is your purpose. You’re the very purpose of your existence. Realizing what lights your fire and floats your boat -- THAT’s your life purpose. What else could it be?

If it gives you true joy {not the seemingly happy-high that is fleeting, but the reliable, always-there kind of satisfaction} to...grow a family or a garden; to help people feel powerful ... whether by fueling their bank accounts or working their bodies or writing their stories; to make people laugh, to commune with nature, to make things a little more beautiful wherever you go; to feed; to stir it up, to clean it up, to look on the bright side; compassionate citizenry, non-stop exploration, or pure pleasure-seeking...than, by God, that’s your life purpose!

Your life purpose is what you say it is.

Who could tell you otherwise?

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  • Yeah, baby!
  • I always find it humorous and, ironically, simultaneously tragic when others say to me that if life doesn't have any built-in purpose, no inherent value, then it has no purpose or value at all. I hate to see people get caught up in the idea life MUST have a built-in purpose and value and, if it doesn't, they are bitterly crushed. It doesn't seem to occur to them "no inherent purpose" and "no inherent value" means one is free to define it for oneself. Your purpose and value is limited only by your own imagination. Many human beings are absolutely terrified of the personal task of defining life for themselves and, I believe, are all too ready to grab onto the first person or philosophy or religion that will provide them with some cookie-cutter "method" or set of rules. "Please, please, tell me what to believe, what to value, what to do", they plead. To me, that's a horrible betrayal of personal uniqueness and potential. Your life is necessarily "Do-It-Yourself". It deserves its own maximum depth and breadth of experiences, understandings, its own beliefs, its own values, its own expression. No, you have no inherent purpose - you have no inherent value. Rather than a depressing thought, I find it incredibly liberating. I can live for whatever reason I wish, I can be as valuable as I wish and, most importantly, when those reasons and values no longer work for me, I am free to change them for something best for who and what I am and wish to be. I guess the lesson is, take control of your life. If you don't, there are plenty of others without your best interests at heart who are more than willing to take control for you. It will no longer be YOUR life, it will be theirs.
  • Caren
    My purpose is to lead a life with connection and magical relationships, especially with myself.
  • Wasn't it Woody Allen who said "My purpose in life is to find out what my purpose in life is."

    Anyway, this one post explains my current reading list.
  • As usual, you make a grand and glorious idea bite-sized, with spice.

    Over and over again, so much about self-realization and growth comes down to this simple formula: truth = ease.
  • Red
    All I can is.. thank you for writing this today. Perfect for today.
  • Michelle Bowers
    Love it! I've spent a lot of time thinking about "what am I supposed to do -- what's my purpose?" But really, in the end, I've decided that my purpose is to be -- be a friend (to myself and others), be good to the earth, be happy, be disciplined (that idea yesterday from Krishnamurit about discipline got me thinking -- what if discipline IS my true nature?). Thanks Danielle, for getting me thinking everyday!
  • Candis Hoey
    I went to this big hippie fest once to save some trees. It was great and they had all these songs to sing at camp fires, meals ect. One line from a song has stayed with me after all these years.
    BE GOOD BE KIND BE TRUTHFUL AND BE FREE.
    When I check into that I fell like I am fullfilling my purpose
  • "After one has discovered what he is called for, he should set out to do it with all of the power that he has in his system.

    Do it as if God almighty ordained you at this particular moment in history to do it."

    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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