Why Are You Here? What’s Your Purpose? Part 1
Published May 24th, 2008 in Law of Attraction, Life, Money, New Thought, Self ImageWhy do you like doing certain things more than others? Why do some things interest you and some things don’t interest you at all? Have you noticed that when you do the things you enjoy doing you feel better and you actually feel somehow complete? Have you also noticed the conflict between what you enjoy doing and what life “demands” you should be doing? If you’ve experienced this then you are the victim of a society of pattern.
Patterns rule our modern society. We grow up to certain customs, adapt certain habits, eat certain foods at certain times, go to pre-school, school, college, university, get a job, get married, have kids, earn money, make debt - and in the midst of all this patterned life you try to find time for what you really like to do, sometimes called a hobby. Of course you enjoy your job and maybe it does bring some fulfillment, but why is your inner yearning to get out and do something else, something more enjoyable?
The reason you feel this way, the reason most people feel this way, the reason I have felt this way is one and the same. You feel frustrated because you are in the wrong boat! You are allowing Pattern to define your life instead of Purpose! A pattern is what you get when you pour ball-bearings into a tray and shake the tray so that all the ball-bearings fall into a pattern into the corner of the tray. You get a pattern when you spread some iron-filings onto a tray and place a magnet underneath. All the ball-bearings and all the iron-filings fall into a predefined pattern when an outside force is applied.
You are experiencing the same result. An outside force is causing you to fall into a predefined pattern. That outside force is society. Now for a lot of people that is a good thing. It gives them stability and sometimes security. Some people can’t cope with the pressure of following patterns and drop out of society. Then there are others who rise above it. Imagine one little ball-bearing refusing to fall into the pattern and jumps right up and out and away from the crowd and away from the outside force. The surrounding ball-bearings will be a little upset, because now there’s a hole in the pattern and they have to shuffle out of their routine pattern in order to fill the hole.
Now imagine you jumping out from your patterned environment and doing something different, something your really enjoy doing. Those around you, those with whom you have been falling into pattern, will get upset. You have upset their routine and now they must move around to adjust before they can settle back into their comfortable pattern. You can expect this reaction when you step out to follow your purpose.
And what is your purpose? In my next article I will give some tips which I believe will help you find your purpose. What is your opinion? Can we discover why we are here? If so how do you think we can uncover our purpose?
Any attempt to break free from being conditioned by patterns was in effect a result of a pattern. As much as I would like to believe we could do that, I would just be kidding myself. Any attempt to break free from the patterns that determine our actions, identity, and life, would still be just another outcome of the income we have been subject to.
You are yearning to break free because you have recognized these patterns that indicate it is a deterministic environment in which you are part of and have no control over. And like I said this “wanting to break free” was also caused by the very patterns we would like to be free of. So far, I have not found any evidence that we can be free from causality. And even if you introduce the randomness that quantum mechanics suggest may exists, we still have no more control over randomness then we do a strictly deterministic environment.
As far as purpose. It’s subjective. This search for purpose is just us looking for something to motivate us to act in an environment we know is already controlling us.
Hi Travis, no offense, but you do not understand the workings of the mind. I am not a quantum mechanics expert, but I have read of experiments which show how the human mind can influence atoms. On the personal level I myself have recognized these patterns, or paradigms, and that they came from past environments and religious systems. I have now cleared those patterns and am now in the process of reprogramming my mind with new patterns, but those of my choosing. I recognize that my results are caused by my past mindsets. My new mindsets are bringing me now the desired results, meaning I am control and I create the circumstances.
As for purpose, this is obviously a spiritual question. Unless you believe you are here for a specific reason then there is no point in trying to find out.
The workings of the mind? How about the workings of the brain! After all, the mind is a product of the brain. Just because when you see a sexy girl you get an erection doesn’t mean you had free will to do so. The sexy girl stimulated your brain to fire neurons which then sent signals to your “down there” to become erect.
Why are you trying to reprogram your mind? As if you had a choice. Of course there were conditions from experiences that determined you to do so. The very causality that you think your are bypassing determined your attempts!
“I recognize that my results are caused by my past mindsets. My new mindsets are bringing me now the desired results, meaning I am control and I create the circumstances.”
Your logic doesn’t follow. If you really recognize that your results are caused by my past mindsets then you should know that your actions are determined, not “I am in control.” You think your “desired” results were freely chosen? Of course not, any desires your have were determined too!
Unless you believe you are here for a specific reason then there is no point in trying to find out.
Your point being?
Jim, I would like “Purpose, Vision and Goals” please.? Thanks.
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Regarding your Part 2 [since it seemed I could not comment on it there], I would like to say that I find it understandable people not believing they have specific purposes in this life. I really do. I blame it in part to so many things I don’t want to sully your site with here but suffice it to say our *information superhighway and get rich quick* idealogies are not helping, in my opinion.
It took a lot of my own cleaning house internally to get what my own purpose was. It also took, “The Purpose Driven Life” and discovering who I was.
I think your suggestions are ideal…to make those lists.
Thank you so much for being here!
Your EC pal,
Samsara