That's a question that's almost cliche' these days. Sometimes we think the answer is about what we do - our careers, or how others see us. But really, life purpose is more of an interior thing: we find ourselves, our meaning, the answers to our deepest desires in how we express - not "what" we express. It's a suble difference because, certainly the products of our work are important. It's just that what fills these products has so much more value. If we create a work of art, we, as artists know that it cannot be truly great ( to us ) if that work is not infused with beauty - with love.
So, life purpose, the meaning behind the way we live our lives, depends on what's going on behind and beneath our outward actions. For us to be content, fulfilled, and satisfied with the direction of our journey here, we must know who we are, why we are, what we love, what we value. Then we must integrate these things into what we do. Doing is one thing. Being is quite another. Love is always the simple answer. Ah, but how we commit ourselves to love what we do, that's the zen of it.
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I'm sure you know these words by Kahlil Gibran, but incase you don't......
"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads from your own heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow the seeds with tenderness, and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you watching. Work is love made visible."
"To charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit". Thats the part I love.
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