Something more.
// January 16th, 2009 // Inspiration, Life (and the living of it), Love
Now, obviously it’s because I’m reading Eckhart Tolle’s ‘A New Earth’ (subtitle: awakening to your life’s purpose) but I’ve been thinking a lot, this week, about our grander purpose in life.
I suppose because we were all on holiday, and now we’re back and? Is this all? Work all week and hang out with friends and in nature on the weekend? It’s lovely, don’t get me wrong, and I love what I do with my everydays, I think I’m so extraordinarily lucky to be able to fill them pretty much as I please.
But shouldn’t there be Something More?
And not even something more like a goal to be reached, because I’ve got that too! My novel is being published in the USA in May, I’ve written a rough draft of my new novel, I’m filling my days with purpose. But. I can’t shake the feeling that that’s not really why we’re here. Surely there has to be something deeper? Tolle said something that really struck a chord with me about how who we are is not our function. I may be a writer, but that’s not who I am. Who I am is something far greater, and wider, and deeper.
And all I can come up with is that we are here to become Who We Really Are, to live our best selves, to continuously challenge ourselves to be more and more loving.
What do you think? Too heavy for a Friday morning?!
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It’s mind boggling, but I think “The Purpose of Life” is different from person to person. We all have to find our own purpose…
Yes, yes and a thousand more. Completely agree.
I’ve always been partial to Transcendentalism, which says just that. (Loads of writers have been part of that movement like Emerson, Thoreau, Lousia May Alcott) – they believe that we are here on Earth to improve ourselves, and that there is an “ideal spiritual state that ‘transcends’ the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual’s intuition.”
Pretty wonderful. Emerson puts it another way (it’s a bit dense, but worth ploughing through:) “So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. … Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”