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Receive a message from the Living With Joy book by going to the "Creating Your Highest Future" room. Click on the Living with Joy book picture, and read the message that comes up. Receive your personal affirmation in the Daily Affirmation Room. For an article on living with joy and releasing struggle, go here. If you would like to listen to Thaddeus' music while reading this book excerpt, go to the listening room first. Read the weekly meditation based on this book excerpt. Orin: What are you here to do? Recognizing life purpose enables you to manifest your destiny. Do not get me wrong; you are free beings. You did not set out a course before you were born that you had to follow. You laid some groundwork, provided yourself with certain parents, and chose to be born in a certain part of the world. You set up circumstances for your life so you would be aimed like a projectile in a certain direction. Once you are here, your life is absolutely spontaneous and decided upon from moment to moment. There is no predetermined limit to how high you can go. There are no limits! To look at your life purpose, look beyond the mass thoughtforms that exist. Many of you have grown up with a great deal of pressure to do, to accomplish, to be, to make a name for yourselves, to feel worthy in one way or another. When you look at life purpose, ask your soul and your self, "Am I doing this for me, for my highest good, or am I doing it to please others, to live up to their image of me? Am I accomplishing this purpose so that I may receive a pat on the back, or recognition? Or am I doing it because it is something I want to do, that fits who I am, that brings me joy?" Look at yourself right now and ask, if society had no images it held up and admired as being good or right, what would you do with your life? There has been an emphasis on outer productivity in your culture rather than on inner peace, joy, love, and compassion. There is a sense of time that pervades everything—accomplish this or that by the age of such and such, or be a failure. There is a sense of pressure, that everything must be done fast. I will say you have been given all the time you need if you come from life purpose in your actions. The
greatest gift you give another You can relax and know that as you go through each day, you have the time to accomplish your purpose. If you do not feel you are accomplishing your purpose, that you do not have enough time, then what you are doing is probably not your purpose. When you are creating your life purpose you will have enough time, for you will create the time. You will find it so joyful that everything else falls away, and your determination, focus, and your concentration is there. As you look at your life purpose, ask, what would you do if you were alone? If you did not have anyone in your life who would gain from what you did, or lose from it either, would it change your choices? What would you do for yourself? What would bring you peace and joy? What if society did not exist or had absolutely different values—would you still love what you are doing? You can start by believing that you do have a purpose, a concrete purpose, and you can begin by asking it to unfold for you. If you begin believing in and acting as if you know what to do with your life, you will. Get up tomorrow and pretend that you are the captain of your ship, and that for one day you will guide this ship the way you want to. You will take the time you need, be with the people you want to be with, say "no" when you want to say "no," and "yes" when you want to say "yes." You will check in from hour to hour to see if you are feeling joy or peace, or whatever you have determined you want to feel. Some have said their life purpose is serving and assisting others. This can be a very good and true life purpose if the self is centered, and if you are paying attention to making your own life work. By taking care of you, putting yourself in an environment that increases your sense of peace, beauty, and harmony, you are much more in a position to assist others than if you put the focus on making them happy and not on yourself. Decide you will create the world that you want. The greatest gift you give another is having your own life work. PLAYSHEET 1. Close your eyes and allow a picture, symbol or image to come to mind that represents your purpose here on earth. 2. Bring your symbol into your heart. Ask the higher forces of the universe to breathe more light and life into it. 3. Imagine your symbol changing color, texture, and size as you add light to it. Let it speak to you with its wisdom and show you how it can be released to help serve humanity. Note about
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