Your life’s purpose is being fulfilled in every moment
What is the purpose of life? This is a fundamental question in life, and a very important one, as the answer could change everything! It could significantly change the way you view things, change your pursuits, and change the way you live our life.
Here we find ourselves, experiencing life in this vast universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric individuals with the ability to desire and achieve things. We have a few basic concepts in our collective consciousness regarding our purpose:
Some say our purpose in life to learn certain lessons and to grow.
Others maintain that life is a test - if we pass this test, we go to heaven, and if we fail, we go to a hell of eternal damnation.
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 simply has no purpose, and that it is merely the result of some accidental process taking place in the universe.
When we begin to analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are true, but only to an extent, and some simply do not stand the test of logic. They are mistaken ideas or mere myths that have crept into our current human culture, into our minds, and thus into our collective experience. Beliefs color experience, and our beliefs can be accurate mental constructs of the way things are, or they can simply be inaccurate or mistaken. Erroneous beliefs can restrict and constrict us (as some of the above beliefs do), while more enlightened beliefs can liberated us.
I’d like you to consider the following: that your purpose for being born is to experience aspects and qualities of who you are in essence, and to re-create yourself continually according to your highest ideas and imaginings, by deciding, expressing, and fulfilling who you are, and who we are continually becoming. As an extension of source energy you also take thought itself to new levels through your desires and choices. All of this experience serves Ultimate Reality, or Divine Essence. Thus, you are continually 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 individual chosen purpose (or more accurately your intention or desire) may not right now be fulfilled, but your purpose for existing is already being fulfilled, in each moment of life.
So there is nothing more you have to do or be in order to be whole or complete. You are already so. And there is nothing that 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 rethink the question of purpose, and consider the possibility that you are already complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe has been created is being fulfilled in every moment of time, and even right now. This idea will certainly bring you more freedom, for it is like removing a huge weight off your shoulders. And this is very empowering too. 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 free yourself, and be your Self again.