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following your soul's impeccable instincts It's all too possible to live in a life that you don't live in. You may have outgrown the roles you play in your life. You may be getting through the days, but falling behind in the things you hoped you'd do. For years, I chased success and comfort and found only emptiness and ache. I was afraid of my true desires. They seemed dangerous, unrealistic, infantile, and ill-defined. ... The Sufi poet Hafiz explains how we can live a life without life in it: "Why complain about life if you are looking for good fish and have followed some idiot into the middle of the copper market? Why go crazy if you are looking for fine silk and you keep rubbing your hands against burlap and hemp sacks?"

Here's my translation: Why be shocked if you feel empty hearted---in a life you selected with your head? Why be surprised when you didn't find what you craved---as you turned away from the horizon that beckoned to you? So this year I invite you to take your place in the life that calls to you, even if it's just for a minute a day or one activity a week. I invite you to follow your soul's impeccable instincts... Tama Kieves - in her newsletter [site: awakeningartistry.com] > author of This Time I Dance! : Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love > related page: vocation / calling

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Our highest purpose in life is expressed through the soul. Without understanding this, we are cut off from our soul's higher purpose and left to the more limiting satisfaction of personality agendas. In coming to understand our purpose fully and profoundly, we may discover that we are not here for our careers; we are not here only for our family-our husband or wife or children. We may learn that we are not even here for service to the disadvantaged, our community, or the needs of our planet.

We may see, moving into deeper and deeper communion with our soul, that beyond the wondrous and right purpose we find in all of those goals, there is another purpose designed indelibly into our original blueprint. That purpose is to be an expression of the fullest potential of the Divine, to be compelled upstream like the salmon, ceaselessly climbing the waves of our soul's curriculum to match and hold and express the essence of the infinite frequency in our being. That is our most profoundly satisfying purpose.... the mind of God is not stagnant. It is the animating principle of the world, continually expanding, as we are. Lenedra J. Carroll = excerpt [on her site lenedra.com] from her book The Architecture of All Abundance

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[Is there any advice you would give to another beginning on their own quest to pursue the call of their soul?] First, there is no formula. It is an individual process, unique and special to each person. However, there is an important quality "To Dare to Begin!" It is, also, helpful to ask oneself the question with each experience, "How do I respond from the soul's point of view for the highest good?".......  Oh, yes!.... Wear good shoes!...don't forget to laugh!.... and one more thing....You have to want to do it as much as a drowning man wants to Breathe! Ginger Gilmour  - from interview on her site Ginger Art : Spaces, Forms and Humanity

 

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Everyone has their own unique work to do. When you do it, it is easy and flows. For some it is difficult to discover what their purpose is. But not finding it means missing out on what we were meant to do on this Earth.. It is easy, especially in this culture, to distract ourselves by meaninglessness. Dorene Lehavi, PhD -  from her article Your Life's Work - on her site Next Level Business & Professional Coaching

 

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Few among us will look back in our old age and wish we'd gone to more meetings or put in more overtime. The point is, despite pressure to "play it safe" by sticking with your day job ("But dear, you have a good job, you want to be HAPPY too?") you have every right to follow your entrepreneurial dreams.  Once you get that life is to be lived and not, as they say, merely endured, you'll understand too that it is up to you and you alone to create the kind of livelihood - and life - you really want.  As Beverly Sills once said, "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Valerie Young - from her article 10 Steps to Escape the Job World and Create the Life You Really Want

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.. .. Everything that I teach is something that I have experienced as real on some level.  All other information I have learned through years of study and relationship with various evolved souls, I treat as hypothesis.  There is a silent confidence that comes from the belief that what we know -- what we truly believe -- is the result of personal experience.

.. .. I believe everyone has a purpose in life and it is our opportunity and challenge to fulfill that purpose through whatever is our current situation. As we succeed, we empower ourselves to create greater opportunity for a fuller expression of our purpose. Patrick J. Harbula  -- from his Life Purpose site The Magic of the Soul: Applying Spiritual Power  to Daily Living - by Patrick J. Harbula

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Your purpose always boils down to an act of benevolence, for it springs from your soul, which is, more often than not, a kind and nurturing place. So how do you tap into this purpose that you supposedly have -- especially if you haven't a clue at the moment what it might be? I've found the most reliable method is to go within, crawling deep into your psyche to a resting place that is rich with your own personal wisdom.  from article How to Find Your Purpose in Life  - by Suzanne Falter-Barns more articles and programs on her site:  HowMuchJoy.com ..

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You are not here merely to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.  You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow T. Wilson  [1856-1924] quote from Self Improvement Newsletter, April 20-21, 2004  from Self Improvement Online - publisher of The Top 101 Experts book

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Yet after I took my qualifying exam and received my master's degree, I felt like something was missing. My days were a blur of wires, electrodes, and rat brains. I was exploring as usual, and yet I didn't feel right. At a scientific conference in the Netherlands, I saw some birds flying in a pattern that I interpreted to mean that I should take a break from science for a while. ... After I got home, I announced that I was going to leave the graduate program and discover my soul's work. I became a radio talk-show host, personal coach, software tester, energy healer, workshop leader, and Web designer. I struggled for a while over whether to become a rabbi or return to the life of a scientist. Finally I found myself falling back in love with science and returning to graduate school. But I could only return to my path as a scientist when I saw that in science I was doing the same work that I did in every other job I had tried: I discovered hidden truths and brought them to the world.

.. .. When I looked at things this way, I saw that science and unfolding can be seen as different ways to use the same process. ... we created science, so we can use it however we like. If we embrace the tools of open experimentation and apply them to ourselves, we can discover the work we are here to do. Julia Mossbridge - from her book Unfolding photo from her site

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My best friend at college, Villanova University, was an Augustinian priest named Father Ray Jackson, who co-founded this educational program called the Center for Peace and Justice Education, and he wrote a book about it.  He asked me to edit the book, so I spent a couple of summers in the university library, and every day Father Jackson asked me, "How are you going to serve?"  So it was a difficult decision for me to become an actor because I was on my way to law school. But I realized that you serve by doing the thing you love, doing it well, and being conscious about what you're giving to the world. Maria Bello    ... [Interview, April, 2004]  /  photo from Secret Window (2004)

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.. .. Most of us were told that we'd have to make daunting sacrifices to go after what we love: we'd have to abandon our lives and live in garrets or on mountaintops and we'd have to have talent a thousand times greater than anyone else, because only special people make it.  Whenever we dream out loud, we're criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are.  As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance. Whenever we begin thinking, "I'd love to travel," or "I'd love to paint," we quickly rattle off all the reasons why we can't: "I don't have the money, I don't have the time, I might not be good enough..." How do I know all this? Because I'm just like you.  In the middle of trying to survive as a single working parent with two jobs, I too watched my birthdays come and go.  When my life would get quiet for a moment, I could hear the nagging voice of unfinished dreams. .... Sometimes I'd even take a tentative step. I'd convince myself that I should be able to make something of myself, no matter what the odds.

After all, we create our own reality, don't we? All I had to do was believe in myself and I could do anything, right? At least, that's what it said in every self-improvement book I'd ever read -- and I had read them all.  Just think positive, tough it out, never quit. If you can't follow through on a dream, the problem is all in your head. Change your thinking. Pardon me, but when I write those words I start getting all steamed up because believing them made me feel like a complete failure.  If those phrases work for you, more power to you, but they have never worked for me. I can't tell myself how to think. I can't do just anything I set my mind to (trust me on that one -- I've been trying to learn Latin for years). As for quitting, I'm famous for it. I still fall off diets with stunning regularity. Barbara Sher - from her book Live the Life You Love photo from barbarasher.com more books by Barbara Sher : It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now : How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It Wishcraft : How to Get What You Really Want

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