The purpose of your life is being fulfilled in every moment
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One fundamental question in life is “What is life’s purpose?” This is a very important question to ask yourself, as the answer changes everything! It significantly changes the way you view things, changes your pursuits, and changes the way you live our life.
Here we are, within this context of life and the universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric beings with the ability to desire things, and achieve things. There are a few basic ideas circulating in our collective experience regarding our purpose:
Some say we are born in order to learn certain lessons and to grow.
Others say that life is a test - if we pass this test, we gain entry into heaven, and if we fail, we suffer eternal damnation in hell.
Some say we take birth to purge ourselves of karma (the effect of all our actions in past lives), and when we eventually do so - after many lifetimes - we become liberated from the cycle of birth and death.
Another theory is that life has no purpose at all and that it is just the result of an accidental process which is taking place in the universe.
When we analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are limited in their description of the grandest purpose of life, and some are simply illogical mental constructs. They are erroneous ideas or myths that have crept into our minds, and thus into our current culture and experience. Beliefs color experience. And our belief systems can be accurate assessments of the way things are, or they can be quite mistaken or inaccurate. Erroneous ideas can imprison us (as some of the above ideas do), while more enlightened ideas can bring us into a more liberated space again.
I’d like you to consider the following: that you are here essentially to experience aspects and qualities of who you are in essence, and to continually re-create yourself in your highest ideas and imaginings by expressing, deciding, creating and fulfilling who you are, and who we are always becoming. As an extension of source energy you also take thought itself to new levels through your desires and choices. And these experience serve Ultimate Reality, the Divine Essence. Thus, in every moment you are fulfilling your purpose for existing, irrespective of what you are doing.
On the one hand we have the purpose of life which is always guiding the process forward. On the other, we have your beliefs about what your purpose is. These two can be exactly or closely aligned, and you will experience expansive power and freedom when they are. Yet even when they are not aligned, your beliefs serve your greater purpose. Even if your own chosen purpose is trying to gain entry into heaven, for example, or climbing Mount Everest, or even chasing maximum enjoyment, it is fulfilling your overall purpose because in and through these beliefs, you are experiencing, creating, expressing, and fulfilling who you are, and who you are continually becoming.
Your own chosen purpose (and in other words your intention or desire) may not right now be fulfilled, but your purpose for existing is always being fulfilled, in each moment of life.
And so there is nothing you absolutely have to do or be in order to be complete and whole. You are already so, except in some of your ideas. And nothing is required of you, other than that which you choose to require of yourself.
You can desire and choose to do certain things, and certainly you can do certain things which would improve the quality of your life and experience, or improve our world, but don’t confuse this with any requirement - that you have to do something in order to fulfill some purpose which is imposed upon your life. Very simply stated: your purpose is to experience and create. Now, didn’t you achieve a whole lot of that already today?
So I invite you to think again about the question of purpose, and contemplate the possibility that you are already complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe was created is being fulfilled right now and in every moment of time. This will bring you more freedom. It is like removing a huge weight off your shoulders. And this is very empowering too. And in truth you are always at choice and essentially free, except for the beliefs that we hold to the contrary. The only limitations you have are those which you choose to impose on yourself. Yet it is an inner knowing and decision to make, and when you make this decision, you can choose to free yourself, and be your Self again.
