12 Nov The Hidden Purpose within Purpose

Most of us seek fulfilment, don’t we? We want to make a difference, whether that is in a meaningful way within our own lives, our family and our world or whether it is in a bigger way which ripples out and reaches beyond our expectations.

Having a purpose brings a focus and creates a focus which helps to take us out of our smallness, our mind, our limiting stories or beliefs.

Having purpose helps us move beyond the ‘I don’t know how to do this’ into questioning how we can make something work, because purpose calls us to find a way to fulfil it.

Within purpose, and striving to fulfil that purpose, we meet ourselves in growth. We meet ourselves in the stretch and we find a way to become more than we were, to meet ourselves in a different, bolder, deeper way than we would otherwise, and then to let that depth, that more become apparent, be seen and known in how we live our lives and in how we express our fullness.

And with that purpose, we (often yes, unconsciously) allow and enable a different, and more universal, divine purpose: we start to enable soul to fully actualise.

Which is what I believe to be the ultimate purpose of us all. To enable soul to actualise through the human experience.

Yet we can’t do that if we’re not us. If I am not me, as fully as I can be, learning every day how to be more freely, expressively me and actually living that in life; if you are not you, as fully as you can be and learning every day how to be more you…we can’t live that divine essence in its fullness, because we limit it through our own limitations.

Purpose gives us meaning and the discipline to move the needle and carry on when life life’s. Purpose helps us carry on climbing the mountain when every bone aches and we want to give up.

Purpose supports resilience and enables the growth that encourages us to dig deeper, to not give up because we know, innately, that a breakthrough – the brightest dawn – is just around the next bend, and so we persist.

Purpose takes us out of ourselves as well as bringing us back to ourselves; its vision and impact creates the passion, and drives the momentum which powers us beyond the limitations of who we thought we were into the freedom and potential of who we can be, who we might be, who we need to be to fulfil the vision, meet that purpose and then move beyond it into something even bigger.

Purpose leads us to self-realise.

It leads us to expand into more possibility than we ever could without it and then to expand again and again, realising more of who we are and letting go of everything that holds us back.

When we serve purpose, we directly serve soul. When we serve purpose, we directly enable the full presence of soul to embody within and through us. When we serve purpose, we don’t simply serve the world through that purpose, we serve the world by simply being, and allowing, who we are.

I think that’s rather magical, don’t you?