Finding Your Life Purposes

Often people become interested in spiritual growth because they yearn to discover their life purposes. They imagine that a life purpose must be exciting and immediately obvious. It should stand out in its elevated nature. They do not believe that their everyday existence could possibly hold such purposes because it is mundane and without clear meaning.

When a person holds such a perspective, they assume that their life purpose must come as a bolt of insight or, alternatively, it will be a difficult search like discovering diamonds. Diamonds are hard to find so they suppose that a long and arduous search for meaning will be necessary. They must find a job or mission that is has spiritual glamour; certainly not something one that will be advertised on Seek.com.

Such people make the same mistake as the true story of the old African farmer who, though having done well in life, learned that a number of people had become fabulously rich by going off in search of diamond mines. He decided he would do the same. He sold his farm and combed Africa for 13 years without success. Finally broken and disillusioned, he threw himself into the ocean and drowned.

Back at his old farm the new owner was out watering a mule in the stream that ran through the farm. There he found a rock which threw off light in a remarkable fashion. He took the rock to a friend who, in turn, took him to an expert who identified the rock as a diamond of great value.

Before long they found many more. The whole farm was literally covered in acres of diamonds. That farm became the site of the DeBeers Kimberley diamond mine, the biggest diamond mine in Africa.

The moral of this story is that the old farmer had gone off looking for diamonds without ever looking under his own feet. He didn’t realise that they were there because diamonds don’t look like diamonds in their rough form: they just look like dull rock. For diamonds to become diamonds as we know and value them, they must be shaped and polished.

This is true for discovering life purpose. Your spiritual potential rests in accepting the value of those strong aspects of the core self that you take for granted: your kindness, your courage, your ability to laugh, to create a comfortable environment that already exist in the way you lead your life right now. These are the rough diamonds right under your feet.

Of course, as a Siramarti practitioner, you know that you do want more than to stand on unidentified rock; you need to find and polish those diamonds.

So how to do this?

Start by being honest about your personality strengths. Let go of the fear of being a tall poppy or big headed as you acknowledge these.

Give up the idea that you have have an exceptional talent to have a powerful life purpose. It is the sum of all your strengths operating in a dynamic way that is the foundation for your spiritual destiny

Allow yourself to invest in your joys. Let go of fear of being selfish or self-indulgent. Spend time, money and effort on the things you love

Find new opportunities to apply your strengths to the areas of life you know enjoy participating in. Don’t be a spectator.

And finally, give gratitude to your self every single day.

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