The great purpose for each of you is to live a life filled with joy.
John Payne
This is an excerpt from John Payne’s book “Your Reality is Your Choice”.
It fits perfectly with the recent discussions on the site.
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We Create Our Own Reality
Many of us unsuccessfully search for our life purpose, our calling. How can we figure this out?
The main purpose of your life is to live with joy. It’s hard for many to hear our words that there is nothing more important than being happy and content with yourself, yet this is the highest truth.
Confusion in defining your life purpose is caused by judgment. Many of you continue to believe in the existence of some higher power that you created in your head and named “God,” as well as in the existence of things that “He” approves of. You make decisions based on what is spiritual and what is not.
Many of you waste time trying to understand what “He” wants. But the point is that “God” wants to see you happy. That’s all. You were born with free will, and from our perspective, love and freedom are one and the same, because without one you cannot attain the other.
Your life purpose and your calling are different, but connected to each other.
Your life purpose is that part of you, or that quality, which you came to develop in this life. Your life purpose can be most successfully achieved in the process of developing and exploring your calling, because it will attract to you those circumstances that will be ideally suited for achieving your personal goals.
Let’s first define what a calling is.
Your calling can be found easily and simply. It is the activity that brings you great joy, whatever it may be. It doesn’t matter if you love flying airplanes, baking bread, teaching, raising a child, being a mechanic, an architect, or something else. What makes you truly happy is what makes you truly happy.
A calling implies doing what you enjoy doing. In doing so, you overcome obstacles and pass tests in order to fulfill your calling.
To move towards your life purpose, you need to persistently strive for joy, no matter what the world and other people tell you.
By doing this, you develop qualities within yourself such as determination, discernment, resourcefulness, courage, independence, acceptance, joyfulness, compassion, willingness to serve, humility, and leadership. The journey along the road of joy towards fulfilling your calling is the key to developing those soul qualities you came to work on in this life.
The great purpose for each of you is to live a life filled with joy.
When you listen to your passion and do what brings you pleasure, you automatically begin to show more love and kindness to others. Only unhappy people treat others poorly. Many of you are unsatisfied with life because you regularly limit yourselves.
Your life purpose is to live the life you were meant to live, and for this you don’t need to know what is right or what “God” wants from you. You only need to listen to your heart, and you can do this by paying attention to your emotions.
Who are you to not fulfill the purpose of your life? This is exactly what you came to give to the world.
Many of you do not accept yourselves and your talents, considering yourselves worthless. It doesn’t matter if you came here to bake the most delicious pie in the world, to become a parent of a gifted soul or a child in need, to be a doctor and healer, or a taxi driver.
Only your love for your life matters. Because if you love life, you love people, and if you love people, you help them. You give, and you give your very best.
It is precisely by giving your very best and feeling it that you work miracles, helping others open their hearts and accept more possibilities, just as you opened yours.
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