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Monday, August 23, 2010

Thoughts on Purpose

9:29 AM | Posted by Ysolei

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I woke listening to Pastor Roderick Caesar's sermon and he was talking about purpose. Not questioning the creator, accepting what life you have. I heard him say that for some of us, a career will be our challenge, health for others; an illness or disease, etc. etc. The reason we still draw breath is because we still have a purpose.

I have been reading other spiritual teachings on the internet about purpose. Some think that we make an agreement as spirit beings to come to earth in physical form (birth) to fulfill some work. In the birth process we forget and must rediscover it for ourselves as humans. Interesting idea. Some people seem to be aware from an early age what it is they are meant to do/be. Others of us struggle with it most of our lives.

I believe that you have to be strong in who you are, know who you are, so others aren't constantly trying to determine that for you. Such people are to be avoided whenever possible--controlling types too afraid to do the work they need to do on themselves. It's easier to try to fix everyone else around them. 
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Quotes about Purpose:

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.  ~Walter Savage Landor


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  ~Robert Byrne


To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.  ~Stephen MacKenna


Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.  ~Washington Irving

A useless life is an early death.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.  ~Chinese Proverb 


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