PURPOSE & HAPPINESS


Matthew McKay, Sean O'Laoire, and Ralph Met (2013). WHY? 

What your life is telling you about who you are and why you're here.


I got turned on to Sean O'Laoire's message about life through a batgap.com interview: https://batgap.com/page/2/ (scroll down the page for the interview)...O'Laoire's spirituality challenges some of my beliefs, but i find his perspective refreshing, holistic, and well thought out. I wanted to read something by him, and this book seemed like a good start even though he is one of three authors.

Real happiness and joy is living your purpose, even in the midst of pain...grabbing more pleasure and avoiding pain won't bring real happiness and joy...our body is a space suit while we live on earth, and the consciousness that resides in our body will outlive your body...our primary mission is LOVE...to see the other, be kind, protect, find worth, seek intuitive wisdom...


For me my purpose is to first LOVE everyone and everything (support, care for, listen to...), and to learn and share these learnings with others to empower their self-healing (becoming whole) and make the world a better place through practical things like creating food forests.  

If you were to take ONE MINUTE to relax, place your hand over your heart, breath deep and full, and pose a question aloud: what is my life purpose?...what would your inner wisdom tell you? and how can you develop the courage to pursue your life purpose right now, in the next few seconds, minutes, hours, today! if you cannot enact something related to your life purpose today, why not? what's holding you back?


 


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