For What Do You Live?

Practically everyone in the world eventually asks this question. But only a handful of people actually find their answer to their authentic purpose of life and live it. The question is which group will you belong to?

1. The group that thinks about the larger picture of life only in passing?
2. Or the few who discover their purpose and choose to live it?

Many people work hard their entire lives for what they currently have. Climbing up the corporate ladder, investing long hours into their work, buying more and more material possessions to cement their social status. They have become so attached to the material stuff they have accumulated that it is difficult for them to let go. Yet, in all their achievements, they cannot find the joy of life they truly seek.

So because of their attachment, they get caught in a war between their ego and their soul. While life has become dry and despairing on their insides, they depend more and more on their material possessions to feed their sense of short lived satisfaction. But yet, they know deep inside the spark they seek is slowly flickering out. They want to find that spark in their hearts and soul again. And yet they are too attached to what they have physically accumulated in their lives.

Satisfaction that comes from achieving more material possessions fades away in the dark of the night. In the moments of their quiet, the gnawing hunger of their soul for true nourishment eats away at them, causing sadness and despair. Far too many get caught in between temporary satisfaction and timeless satisfaction for their soul

They are lost between the conditioning of society and the timeless need of their souls for living a life of purpose.

The funny thing is when you are living on purpose you already have everything you need. When you follow the passion of your soul, while material things still remain vital, they no longer consume your days and your nights.

When you live your soul purpose, you begin to become happier and enjoy a lighter spirit. These are the moments when you realize that you truly are a soul having a human experience and not a physical being having a spiritual experience.

Does this mean you don’t need physical stuff?

Our bodies still need food, shelter and clothing. Without the money to purchase them, how will you live out your life purpose? What you need to do is bring your life purpose into alignment with the creation of value for others. When you can do this, you can continue to bring in the money you need to sustain yourself and your family.

Do you live for the soulless, dreary work that you might be doing? Is the whole of your existence summed up in the work you do for corporations and the daily commute to a job that you don't even like?

Or does your purpose in life to allow a creative expression of your soul to come through in the work that you do? To find and live the moments that cause your heart to sing and your feet to dance?

Do you live? Or are you alive?

What then, is your real purpose of life?