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What is life’s purpose? This is an important question in life, and a very fundamental one, as the answer changes everything! It could significantly change your pursuits, and change the way you live our life.

Here we find ourselves, within this context of life and the universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric individuals with the ability to desire things, and achieve things. We have a few basic ideas circulating in our collective experience as to what our purpose is:

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 are born in order to purge ourselves of karma (the effect of our past actions in previous lives), and after many lifetimes, when we eventually do so, we become liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

Another theory is that life has no purpose at all. It is just the result of an accidental, chaotic process taking place in the universe.

When we analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are limited in their description of the grandest purpose of life, and some are simply illogical mental constructs. They are erroneous ideas or myths that have crept into our minds, and thus into our current culture and experience. Beliefs color experience. And our belief systems can be accurate assessments of the way things are, or they can be quite mistaken or inaccurate. Erroneous ideas can imprison us (as some of the above ideas do), while more enlightened ideas can bring us into a more liberated space again.

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.

And so there is nothing more you have to do or be in order to be whole or complete. This you are already. There is nothing that is required of you, other than that which you choose to require of yourself.

There are things you can choose to do, intend to do, desire to do, and certainly there are things you can do which would improve your experience, your life, and maybe improve this world, but do not confuse this with a requirement - that you have to do something in order to fulfill some purpose which is imposed upon your life. To be really simple about it, your purpose is to experience and create. Didn’t you achieve a whole lot of that already today?

So I invite you to think again about the question of purpose, and contemplate the possibility that you are already complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe was created is being fulfilled right now and in every moment of time. This will bring you more freedom. It is like removing a huge weight off your shoulders. And this is very empowering too. And 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 choose to free yourself, and be your Self again.