Ask yourself 'What do I need?'
Then repeat to yourself what you found.
TWIST Comment: We've all come to live life without ever knowing or being told what our purpose of life is. There are several theories and literatures that try to explain this. Some of them are ever more convincing that the others. My view of this is very simple.
If God appears in front of you tomorrow (I bet he will, but most certainly we will not recognize God), and asks, 'what do you need?'. Will we ever have an answer? Let it not wait till tomorrow. Instead, start asking yourself now. It might take a few minutes or a few hours or even days if you are really serious about answering it.
Assuming you come up with a few needs, think how far reaching it can be into your life to achieve those. If it's something you can achieve in 3, 5 or 10 years, then you'll have to do this exercise frequently. A better idea would be to think of something that you'll need for the rest of your life.
If you know what it is that you need for the rest of your life, then you have an answer for the purpose of life too. Nobody else need to spell that for you. It comes from inside you and there is no disputing the authenticity of it. If you do not feel you need it, you would not have listed it in the first place. If you've listed it, then you are here right now doing this, because that was to be your purpose in life.
Where to go from here? There is nowhere else to go, just start from where you are and the rest of it will find you. All you need to do is acknowledge the need in you. This can change over a period of time as your maturity in a role you play increases - do not dispute it. Accept it and life goes on.
Then repeat to yourself what you found.
TWIST Comment: We've all come to live life without ever knowing or being told what our purpose of life is. There are several theories and literatures that try to explain this. Some of them are ever more convincing that the others. My view of this is very simple.
If God appears in front of you tomorrow (I bet he will, but most certainly we will not recognize God), and asks, 'what do you need?'. Will we ever have an answer? Let it not wait till tomorrow. Instead, start asking yourself now. It might take a few minutes or a few hours or even days if you are really serious about answering it.
Assuming you come up with a few needs, think how far reaching it can be into your life to achieve those. If it's something you can achieve in 3, 5 or 10 years, then you'll have to do this exercise frequently. A better idea would be to think of something that you'll need for the rest of your life.
If you know what it is that you need for the rest of your life, then you have an answer for the purpose of life too. Nobody else need to spell that for you. It comes from inside you and there is no disputing the authenticity of it. If you do not feel you need it, you would not have listed it in the first place. If you've listed it, then you are here right now doing this, because that was to be your purpose in life.
Where to go from here? There is nowhere else to go, just start from where you are and the rest of it will find you. All you need to do is acknowledge the need in you. This can change over a period of time as your maturity in a role you play increases - do not dispute it. Accept it and life goes on.
Comments
http://mdharma.blogspot.com/2009/02/purpose-of-my-life.html
The most intense way to ask is "Who is asking for the purpose of life?"
The best tool to transcend mind is to hold the mind against the mind - and it collapses and implodes on its own.
What is left is only the Bliss of Existence. And that is the ONLY purpose of life. Realizing the Bliss within
The process of discovering one's purpose as I've defined here is from a 'need' perspective; I couldn't practically attach the self-discovery as a direct objective in my 'thinking' at this stage.
We all have been told of inner calling and self-realisation. Unless we go through our own catharsis it's very difficult to realise it ourselves. Fundamentally I'm of the view that what will keep is going for a good few years to come in a healthy mental and physical state is worth aspiring for.
Let me share what I discovered; I needed an all-round development covering 'health', 'wealth', 'love' and 'joy'. I've since then begun evaluating key steps I take in life (or even periodically) to see if there is balance in all four aspects. The four 'labels' have deeper meanings that I can only feel as I perform such self-evaluation. It isn't as simple to state in words or explain in brief here!