Finding Your Own Voice
If you’ve read a few of the previous posts, you have noticed that I have a central focus of trying to shake people out of stagnation, addictions, and routines. One of the core attributes of life purpose is the ability to live spontaeneously, which means that we are consciously choosing to be free in this very moment. What are we free from? Well, really we are free from the past, from karma, and from the insidious tendency to succumb to habitual behavior.
When you decide to let go of rote behaviors, you are basically asserting your free will as a human being to think, act, and feel in a radicaly creative and unique manner. You do things on your terms. You act according to your own spiritual impulses. Really, how could you discover your life’s purpose if it were otherwise? Life purpose can only be found in this moment. And we have to be fully here to be awake to this moment to find our purpose. Really, our purpose finds us. How? When we become free of bondage, conformity, and expectations. When we relinquish our need for external validation. When we stop caring what others think about us.
Purpose finds us. Really, it is just there waiting for us. It is always there. In fact, it is literally right in front of us all the time. All we have to do is see it. Why don’t we? Because we are bound up in expectation, the need to be accepted or not judged by others, the vicious clinging to security at all costs. If we let go, then it is there. But it is not outside of us. It can’t be found by trying harder or by using will power to feel better. That will only create more distraction and confusion. Purpose can only be found through surrender.
It is a completely natural process. What happens when you live with purpose is that you find your own voice. Now, this may sound kind of obvious or pleasant, but really it’s a totally radical way to live. Finding your own voice comes about when you renounce your reliance on external validation, when you choose to put freedom before security.
‘How do I do this?’, you may ask. Well, it will only come about when you are ready for it. Really, there is no how. It is all about being ready to renounce any and all distractions to purpose. That is the only way. Yes, you can do this right now, in this very moment. But are you ready? Or is there more of an interest in staying comfortable, secure, and safe? Purpose transcends all of these pursuits. Only when you are literally ready to jump into the abyss of the unknown will you find purpose. That is where radical independence is found. Until then, it’s merely a matter of staying comfortable, feeling like you’re right, and postponing your deepest, heartfelt longings.
When you find your own voice, you become fully alive. You become an inspiration to others. Your motivation to live becomes much larger than the narrow parameters of ‘I’.
If you want to learn more about becoming awake to your life’s purpose, I recommend that you check out my new book The Purpose Principle, due out in e-book form in early September, and in hard copy a few months after that. The book is all about waking up to who you really are, transcending mediocrity and conformity, and renouncing the small reality of ‘I’ once and for all.
Kevin Doherty
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