Remember that time when I asked, “What were you born to do?” There were quite a few intimidating questions in that post, as well. It’s one of my personal favorites that I’ve ever written, and I’ve actually re-read it on occasion and thought very nice things about myself.
Recently, a friend of mine re-opened the conversation when he left a powerful comment. Hrvoje Butkovic, author of “Living Deliberately” shares a little more insight, igniting a new discussion about solving the life purpose riddle.
“If you don’t mind, I would like to expand on your post from my own experience.
What has particularly caught my attention was the “Meditate. Listen. Absorb. Trust.” title. There is a tendency in our society to think our way to answers. I have come across a number of sources that advocate listing one’s skills and talents, establishing one’s personality profile (Myers-Briggs or similar), identifying activities of interest, and so on, as a way to discover one’s life purpose.
Thinking is obviously important as a way to organise and make sense of all this information. However, there are two areas where it falls short, and where alternative approaches need to be used.
The first one has to do with the source of information from which to uncover one’s life calling. Talents, interests, etc are a part of it. The remainder comes from seemingly mundane events – a chance utterance by a friend that catches our attention, an idea expressed in a movie or a novel that takes on undue significance, innocent behaviour of a child or a pet that triggers an unexpected association, a cryptic message in a dream or a vision, and so on.
We cannot force this information to come to us. To be able to receive it and notice its synchronicities, we have to be in a receptive state of mind for much of the time – in nature, in the dark, in silence. Hence the need to meditate, listen, absorb and trust.
[Just an FYI: These are the situations that ought to become part of your ‘Evidence Box‘]
The second one is about the interpretation itself. Even if we solve the riddle of our life purpose by analysing the above information, we won’t know that we’ve solved it by relying on thinking alone.
It is not like a mathematical problem where we can verify the answer by looking at the numbers themselves, or by asking someone else to confirm it for us. The way to recognise the answer is by the emotions that it stirs in us. It is not a thoughtful “Yes, that makes sense”, but a tearful “Yes! I can dedicate my life to this”.
Another reason that we have to learn to meditate, listen, absorb and trust is that the answer that we find is not likely to be static.
Once we start living the purpose that we have found, we are likely to uncover additional pieces of the puzzle that we lack, and discover flaws – inaccuracies – in the interpretation of the ones that we already have. Gaining increased self-knowledge is essential to the process of focusing and clarifying one’s life purpose.
Even information that we may obtain through mediumship or hypnosis (both of which I have found tremendously helpful) doesn’t stand on its own, but merely points to what we need to explore deeply within ourselves.
Read more from Hrvoje Butkovic at Fluffy Groovy.
This search for clarity in life purpose – no one is going to hand it over to you all wrapped up with a cute pink bow. I call it a riddle for a reason – reaching your conclusion can be elusive and challenging!
Where are you currently in solving the life purpose riddle? What methods have you used to gather evidence?
With mucho a latte of love and respect,
Your Transformation Tour Guide
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