The Way of It

By accident, I ended up at Steve Pavlina’s blog today. I had been there before. Intriguing, strong willed character, Steve is. Browsing through his posts, I found this one called “How to discover your life’s purpose in 20 minutes.” Too tempting to pass. On his post he recommends the following exercise:

1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type .

2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”

3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.

4. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

So I decided to give it a try. I opened up my word processor, wrote at the top “What is my true purpose in life?, and began to write.

I immediately wrote:

To be happy, to serve

and began to cry.

So much for it taking 20 minutes. Maybe all the inner work I’ve done through the years hasn’t been in vain.

To keep at it is at the same time divine medicine and insane medicine.

It depends on what is it that you keep at.

Does what you keep at bring peace or stress into your life?

Just notice.

Then stick with what brings you peace.

And be kind to yourself. Persistence yields its fruits in its own time, not your own time.