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Blessings for YOU Ezine This Week's Quotations
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with
our personal happiness, The purpose of life is a life of purpose The Blessing of Purpose I In Corrogue I am All One This week I am on holiday. This word holiday derives from two words being ‘holy’ and ‘day.’ Holiday is intended for renewal and re-recreation. Creation and re-creation are practices that are holy, wholesome and healing. A holiday is not so much somewhere you go but a time when you enter a state of wholeness. In the workshop entitled ‘7 ways to a Wonderful Life’ I teach as one of the ways, the Way of Purpose. Generally speaking there are two approaches to finding purpose. There is the approach to finding the purpose of ‘my life' and there is the approach to finding ‘life’s purpose.’ The purpose of ‘my life’ will tend, for the most part, to be focused in the outer world. The purpose of ‘my life' tends to be focused in time and in creating a life situation that is relatively comfortable. It usually includes the doing of satisfying work, being in a loving relationship, doing no harm to othrs and being successful within the terms defined by the culture within which we live. A life purpose, which is ‘my life’ focused will tend for the most part to be future orientated. It will tend to be predetermined and defined largely in language. Usually, although not explicitly, it will be defined in terms of good and bad or success and failure. My life purpose will tend to be linear in that it moves from point A to point B along a time line. In this sense ‘my life purpose’ is seen to be going somewhere. Your life purpose will become an aspect of your identity. You will tend to judge yourself and be judged by others as having arrived or not arrived depending on circumstances. Your life purpose will be satisfying or not satisfying depending on what you consider you have achieved or not. There will be a sense of your getting somewhere, and maybe if you feel disappointment, getting nowhere. More often than not here will be a sense of never quite having arrived. In fact our collective conditioning promotes this non-arrival, which leaves you wanting for more. Of course there will be times when you will feel you have made it. For a time you may feel successful in your job or career. For a time you may enjoy a healthy and loving relationship. You may for a long time be healthy and be relatively satisfied with ‘your life.’ The other essential ingredient of ‘my life’ purpose is that you agree that you are having a separate existence from all other forms of life. You agree that you live between a beginning called birth, for an unknown period in time, and then you die. You hope however, that when you die you will still exist in some form. You hope you go somewhere else which you are told depends largely on how you have behaved along this time line called ‘my life. Mostly you rely on the authority of others to tell you how it will be beyond your life in form. Focusing on the purpose of ‘my life’ will at best give you some satisfaction. If you are really successful, as defined by the times you live in, you may experience great satisfaction. There will be times when you get exactly what you want but the desire and the wanting will come again and that desire will drag you into the future. It will drag you into the future life that you are intent on making meaningful in a pre-determined way. Rarely will you be present to the life that is in this moment going nowhere but with the potential to be everywhere and everything. This life purpose as directed by ‘little me’ has its highest aspiration in living a life of relative ease and comfort. Along the way we hope to love and be loved by family and others who are relatively speaking of like mind. Of course death is always the end result but collectively we agree that this is something we can choose to ignore and do ignore until it comes knocking on our door. Mostly, however, ‘my life’ as determined by ‘little me’ is absent of wonder, absent of joy and the absent of Love. There may be glimpses of these states of being but very quickly these tend to be forgotten or are retained only as a fond memory. These perfumes of Being labelled wonder, joy and Love are not the experience of the time-based identity called ‘me’ or 'mine.' These perfumes of Being are not something that you do or achieve. In the experience of wonder you are not. In the experience of joy there is joy but there is no one having a joy filled experience. In the experience of Love it is not ‘my love’ that is but the flow of Love arising moment-to-moment moving from the formless into and through form. This is compassion, which is the movement of Love in Action. The real purpose of life in human form is to realise that you are a Being. Even to say you are a Being suggests something that there is something that is separate. It is closer to say you are Being in each and every moment. Only to realise this is not something that you do. This realisation is not about achievement, not about going anywhere called success or failure but simply abiding within the deep stillness of this moment. Out of this stillness arises love beyond the tyranny of the thinking about ‘my life’ mind. We have forgotten what it is to trust life to be as it is. In this trusting of life the doing and the doer are one. This is Love in Action. This is right action, which does not have an opposite. Right action and wrong action are there when judgement is there and when there is a sense of someone doing the action. This is action from ego and not action from the feeling of at-one-ment with the source. Most people are not prepared to put their faith in allowing life to arise as it is and allow creation to be creative from this state. They are caught within the idea of time and are focused on doing my life and my life purpose. Within this focus more and more needs to be done to maintain what is called ‘my standard of living.’ This standard of living is usually measured in terms of money, status, success etc. With the doing of ‘my life’ and my life purpose there is the creation of a separate identity, which must be protected. When things change as they always will there is a sense of loss. We have forgotten the power of wonder, joy and Love to move mountains including mountains of dissatisfaction. We have forgotten the power of life to create life and life more abundantly. This does not mean we create more things although it may mean that in any given moment. It means that the life of abundance is not about more but about now and allowing the feeling of the wonder of now. It is allowing life, which is the dance of creation to be the dance. Joy, wonder and Love are the movement of this allowing. This movement of the dance of life, which is forever becoming is not something predetermined. It is arising and falling within each moment. It is not within time and not conditional. A sense of wonder is felt within that which is being created anew. Wonder is never predetermined which is always of the ‘little me’ mind. Wonder does not arise from the experience of 'little me.' It arises out of a sense of absence of 'little me' who lets go of all the attachments to what they think they are and surrenders to the glory of no thing ness. For the majority of people living life within the ‘little me’ focus, identified with time, space and a body this invitation to no thing ness is no invitation at all. Better, they think, that we do our lives and forget about going to this crazy place of nowhere. Better to forget any sense of wonder, forget about joy and forget about Love. So we enter a state of forgetting who we are. We then lose our birthright. We think, “Let it be enough that we might find some ‘little me’ love and hope that it lasts.” So we go back to sleep and refuse the beautiful invitation to be all that we are as a fully realised human being. This is the knowing of who we are in the oneness of all there is forever and ever. To know this is to know that the blessing is already here and you are it. In the next series of weekly ezine's I will be extending the teachings from the workshop I run entitled '7 Ways to a Wonderful Life.' This will be a continuing series of ezine articles which will allow you to follow and practice the Way of Wonder. The following weekly Blessings will be entitled - The Blessing of Purpose I If you have anyone who would enjoy experiencing more wonder, joy and love in their life please invite them to subscribe at this website. 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