Finding
Life Purpose
Finding
Life Purpose, Life Purpose, Purpose Driven Life, Purpose of Life, Life
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Written
by Laurel Sherer & Tristan Anderson
“Something important is happening in our world that you are not going to read about in the newspapers.
I consider it
the most fascinating and hopeful development to of our time…It has
to do with what is occurring to the notion of the self.”—Joanna
Macy from Dharma Gaia (1990)
Introduction
When you think of life purpose what comes to mind? Do you think about what you have learned in life or what you have done? Do you think of your career or your family? Allow yourself to pause from reading for a moment and explore your associations with life purpose.
Now let us now take a journey in the imagination. Take a deep breath inward and feel your connection to the earth. Allow the energy centers on the bottom of your feet to open to the energy of the earth. Visualize where you are on the living earth, reading this course on life purpose. Imagine the earth itself, with all of its bodies of water, mountains, deserts, and living beings. Breathe in and feel your connection to all of this life here on earth. Now imagine the earth floating in space at a distance from the sun that allows life as we know it to exist on this planet. Notice how this feels, how it feels to be aware of the many other forms of life on earth. Now, ask yourself, “What is the meaning of life purpose?” Allow any responses to come to mind and simply notice them.
The way that we view life purpose greatly changes depending on what we experience the self to be. A fundamental question to ask ourselves in exploring life purpose, then, is: what is the self? In this course, we will explore several ways in which the self can be viewed. Just as the ripples from a stone hitting water expand out into increasingly large circles, so too can our notion of self open. Jeremy Hayward tells us in Dharma Gaia (1990), “The growing into maturity of a human is experienced as an ever widening sense of self, from identification with the individual body-mind, to self as family, self as circle of friends, as nation, as race, as human race, as all living things, and perhaps finally to self as all that is.”
From each sense of self, we find unique ways to get in touch with life purpose, including both how we view our existence and how we live our lives. So in taking a closer look at several ways to view the self, we will explore the meaning of life purpose from each of these perspectives. This will provide you with empowering information and tools to help yourself and others.
Whether you
already feel strongly connected to your life purpose or are seeking to
know your path in life, this course will hopefully broaden your understanding
of what life purpose can mean and help you to better understand why people
live in the ways that they do. Furthermore, this course will show you
how we can deepen our sense of life purpose by living with awareness of
the expanding versions of the self. May this course be a seed of expanded
consciousness that grows in you and those whose lives you touch.
You may be asking, why am I here? Find purpose driven life and find life
inspiration. Find a life purpose! Find greatness in a meaningful life!
Fulfill your needs with life purpose!