THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

Life has no apparent purpose to which we can relate
Until we create one (or more) for our self
And venture forth to meet it,
Inwardly and outwardly.

In a context of unconditional love
Life will take on whatever purpose(s) we give it.
Choose carefully,
Because any purpose you decree for your life
Has absolute creative power
Over what happens with you from then onward.
Become aware.
Meditate into your life.
Pay attention to it.
Watch with interest where it takes you.
Be available to all that is happening
And open to what more might be possible,
Inside and out.
Without feeling the need to justify anything,
Create what you want,
And add to that as often as you want.
At any given time stand by all that you've created,
Go responsible for it, and stand on it.
(My stand, for example,  is -- There is always another way...")
When you put yourself on the line
Life comes to meet you,
Bearing all manner of gifts.

What is your Purpose of Living?

• To successfully survive, until you die?
• To prepare for another life?
• Spiritual discovery?
• To resist and suffer?
• To advance civilisation?
• Self-gratification?
• Power and control?
• What....?

The answers that matter will not come from your head,

But will show forth in the evidence at sunset

Of how you've spent today,

And the quality of interaction you've had during the course of this day

With the rest of existence.
Let the fruit you bear be the evidence
To the purpose of your being.

Let this be your daily evensong.

Purpose,

Whether consciously formed or not,

Directs our life.

A consciously created Purpose,

Enlightens our choices and decisions.

Purpose generates movement in the direction we want to go

And delivers increasing satisfaction.

Without commitment to conscious chosing, however,

We're blown around willy-nilly

By the flaky winds of cross-purposes,

Most of which don't even belong to us.

I am not about to suggest what your Purpose of Life may be,

But I offer you a few possibilities to get you started

On your own exploration ---

• Life is for the purpose of Conscious Experience, and learning Mastery (the opposite of "control")
• Life emerges from the realm of absolute, unconditional love so that we might experience the opposite of all that, and so come to know all that we are.
• Life gives us the hitherto unavailable opportunity for both the divine and the secular in us to discover, experience and express loving and being loved.

On your deathbed, I promise you,

All of your preoccupations with career, education, image, money, security, power, and people you don't like........

Will evaporate. Totally. Gone.

Alongside getting on with the business of letting-go,

The only issue of importance to you will be --

Who did I love? (and you'll get some surprises)

Who loved me? (more surprises)

Do they know how much I love them?

Did I express my love adequately, and honour it appropriately?

Given that you are still alive and reading this,

I can safely say that you, like me, have not yet achieved the Purpose of Life.

We're not done yet.

We're still caught up in intricacies;

We have not yet mastered the simple purity

Of loving and being loved.

This life is the arena where we get all the opportunities

And all the experiences we need.

We were placed here

Without an Instruction Manual.

The directions back home have been fragmented, translated into code,

And hidden along the way.

We have no memory of where we came from,

Only occasional and fragmented flashbacks of past expeditions.

We're like an amnesiac,

Cast away on an island isolated in time and space

Along with a bunch of other amnesiacs

Who, despite their protestations to the contrary,

Also have no idea who they are, where they are, or why they're here.

(That includes me, by the way. Don't follow me -- I'm lost, too.)

The implied Instruction for Life is - 

"Make it up as you go along."

Now, if we can really get a handle on this as possibly "The Way It Is",

Without rebelling, or being dominated by an "I-know-better" ego,

Then there's a good chance we'll begin to experience our own Innocence.

We may stop straining,
And let go of everything we think we know

And start to relax into the condition of Knowing Nothing,

The only state from which Creating is possible

(Creating is the art of bringing something forth from Nothing. Something from something is just change.)

From Innocence we can create Purpose --

For life and for our self --

A personal Purpose that will organise everything we think, feel, say and do,
And everything that we experience being done to us,

And that will connect with the Universal Purpose of All Life

I suspect that there is no escaping the Universal Purpose of life.

It was given to us by the creative source before our life in this body began.
But what is it?
Why is there Life at all?

Every moment of the day and night we are reporting back

On how we're doing,
Without really knowing "compared to what"?

It's possible that those who have experienced past lives
May well have realised they missed the boat
And returned to "have another go".

Who knows? It really doesn't matter one way or the other.

But I get that the general idea is to make the most 

Out of the chance to live the life you've got.

Begin by realising as clearly and as often as you can

The Love that is manifest in Living,

Everywhere you look,

However that love is expressed in your world.

The Purpose of Life?
For myself I've made it --
To liberate others who are willing
And myself who is very willing,
From whatever is holding us back.
That's what I've created for me.....

Now,
What is the Universal Purpose of All life?
That would be handy to know,
Because you and I are both a part of that, too.

I can't be sure -- the jury is still out;

I'm still here, so there must be more for me to get yet,

Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely.

But I have found something

That I've tried and tested in some pretty extreme circumstances

And, so far, it's still working for me.

If this tweaks your interest,

Feel free to try it for yourself ---

For the whole of Existence,
The purpose of life

Is Life itself.