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| I can't see anything good coming out of doing this. We're talking about something very complex. Something that is rooted deep within us. It is with certainty guiding us all day long without our knowledge of it. My idea is that you could express part of it by using "abstract channels" - writing poems, painting etc. but it is just plain silly to believe that we have the verbal power to define our true meaning of life (espiecally after just a couple of months of consideration). It is multi-leveled and language itself set the limitations for what can be expressed. (Describe a color like yellow, but one that you have never seen before... Describe yellow in correlation to other colors and concepts... "it's... bright..." When we try to define meaning we are boxing ourselves in and limit our outlook on life. We cannot possibly cover everything and if we were to live after this "home-spun" ideom, the result would only be that our lives would get very "dry" and simplistic. My goal would be something like: "I want to live a good life, feeling good but also experiencing pain in order to enjoy the good times. But I also wan't to feel that special satisfaction when you're feeling low and enjoying it in some weird way. I also want to have a lot those feelings where everything just feels "real". When you are just stricken by how beautiful everything is and so on. The meaning of my life is always to be calm and spread that calmness to my friends, but without interfering with their underlying personalities. I don't want to change them too much. I want the negative people negative, who likes to be negative. My goal is to understand life and different outlooks on life..." ...and I could go on for the rest of my life. So - do you see what I'm getting at? All of the things I could possibly write could just be summed up in a feeling from within which is aways there. Just pick it out and let that feeling or intuition guide you. Meditate if you have to to get it out. ....
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol Last edited by ImOpen : 11-07-2006 at 05:48 PM. |
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| I'm one of those still looking for my purpose, and kind of frustrated about the whole thing at the moment, but I guess I'll get over it. That said, I still think it's possible to put your purpose down in words, but that your purpose will be something more to you than just those words. You may write down a sentence, such as "Live a fulfilling life." That doesn't really say much, but in your mind you'll understand it fully and it will have a deeper meaning, beyond simple language and words. Secondly, those that have found their purpose, such as Steve, don't seem any worse of for it. In fact, they seem much better of. They know where they are going, they know what they want and they feel good about life, what they do and who they are. I wouldn't mind having a bit of that. |
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| "Secondly, those that have found their purpose, such as Steve, don't seem any worse of for it. In fact, they seem much better of. They know where they are going, they know what they want and they feel good about life, what they do and who they are. I wouldn't mind having a bit of that." Those words are not Steve's true purpose. That would be a mockery against his person. We are all much more than that. We are greater than anything we can express. Don't try to define things you cannot comprehend. The human is a funny animal, we have the ability to question things we can never understand, if we were to get the correct answer. So, just don't question.
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol |
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| ragtag, don't let yourself be discouraged. you sound like you're on the right path, and your thinking is logical. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...-self-be-true/
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| Generally when people state what their purpose is....it's what they are trying to "call forth" at the moment. I wouldn't say it's limiting...i'd say it's empowering. You can live life by default or you can live it "on purpose". |
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| Hi ImOpen, Have you done the method for finding your purpose in life, in 20 minutes? There's nothing to be afraid of, even if you feel a little frightened, that's O.K. Nothing bad will happen to you, and only goodness comes from knowing ones purpose in life. I promise. |
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HA!! SEE I'm NOT the only one!! |
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Now... pleeeease read my post before you post and when you've done that - please post. (And don't use bold faced capital letters. It's a bit silly when the misunderstanding is on your part.)
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol Last edited by ImOpen : 11-07-2006 at 06:56 PM. |
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| One doesn't have to specifically define a purpose in order to come to an awareness of what ones purpose is. The defining comes in working out the steps to live congruently with that newly discovered purpose. |
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I would like to ask where do you think one should begin in that case? You think it's not of any importance at all to write down lifelong goals, or just minor importance? From my point of view, where I am starting, I'd say that I'd better learn to crawl before I try to walk. Then constantly develop. Explain to people, who basically let other people live their life, that they should find their life's purpose in the way you describe. I think they wouldn't know where to start. I'm I on the right track here? I think this is interesting and I'd like you to define/explain a little more how one would go about it in a better way. Since we are all here to learn. |
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It's very much about finding yourself. I think meditation can be of good use, maybe creative work... And always observing what you think, feel, say, hear. Introspection! It's about congruence between the inner you and "you". It's just simple self-actualization (see "Maslow") without putting so much belief in our verbal skills when it comes to maybe the most complex "thing" we know of. dorothy hanna: I have done it. It does not give me much. Instead I feel fulfillment coming when I act on what I truely believe is me, and I cannot articulate it.
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol Last edited by ImOpen : 11-07-2006 at 09:10 PM. |
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| Knowing your purpose isn't meant to fulfill you, or your purpose. You are on the right track when you act congruently with that purpose. So, you have done the test. Good!!! Didn't hurt anything. Did it. It wasn't the end all. Was it. Well, that's because it isn't meant to be the end. It's part of the beginning. Your not supposed to feel fulfilled, YET. It's supposed to help get you started off on the right foot, to living congruemtly. And, as I said way back when...Nothing bad about it. |
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| A bad start and therefore it doesn't matter from my perspective what you say will come out of it. Check my first post and read my hypothesis. If you want to discuss it, feel free to do so.
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol |
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| By they way, my answer after the 20 minutes was: "Do." Well... nothing terrible with that. It will probably not harm me, but not help me either.... Everything else felt futile.
__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol |
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| Hi ImOpen, When you did the 20 minute test, did you find your purpose in life, or did you just count down the clock for 20 minutes, and then decide there was nothing much in it for you? Steve explained that, on average, it would take about 20 minutes, but for some, longer. I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes, and really wasn't expecting much, but then, all of a sudden, WOW, there it was. I had the emotional whammy, and everything. |
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__________________ Thinking, criticizing and questioning. Not believing everything I'm told, neither by God nor Pavlina. lol |


