When you have only outer purpose then you will want to find new things to do all the time. You will like and want to do new things. If you have to do them over and over for many months you will get bored and want to do something else. You will have fulfilled your temporary desire that was based on an outward stimulus. Physical experience and physical pleasure are always temporary.

Whereas, creating purpose for all you do, or anything you do, can give you an inexhaustible well of desire and need fulfillment. And your desires will change as you evolve and grow.

Outer Physical Purposes and Inner Mental Purposes

In the journey of life we learn to use our physical body and five senses. We learn what is pleasurable and what is painful. We learn to have motivation to achieve what is pleasurable. This motivation is seen as personal benefit or purpose.

For example, you may have an urge toward a higher paying job. What are the benefits of a higher paying job? The higher paying job will give you the money to buy a newer car or a larger house or more expensive clothes. These are all physical personal benefits or purposes.

There is nothing wrong with physical purpose as long as you don’t stay there. In other words, it is each person’s inherent right and duty to progress to a greater, a more evolved state of consciousness.

Therefore, purpose or personal benefit must evolve also. After you have taken care of your basic physical needs it is time to progress to taking care of your mental, spiritual or consciousness needs.

The outer or physical purpose gives you the motivation
to achieve your physical goals in the future.

The inner or mental purpose gives you the motivation to achieve your ideals in the eternal now.

Physical goals and physical purposes can take up so much of your attention that you may miss the inner purpose.

The inner purpose isn’t about what you are doing. It’s about how you are doing the activity. It is about your thought, your discipline, your stillness of the mind. Are your thoughts repetitive and habitual or are they involved in imaging and visualizing your future?

The quality of your consciousness in the present moment determines everything.

The outer or physical purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension
of space and time. It is of the physical world.

The inner or vertical purpose is of the now and involves a deepening
of one’s ability to benefit the whole Self, the whole consciousness,
and the whole being.

The inner purpose is a moment by moment choice to add to one’s consciousness.

These continual choices to add to one’s self and one’s consciousness create the movement, the transformation to enlightenment.

Inner purpose gives one lasting fulfillment. Outer purpose gives one temporary stimulation or satisfaction.

As one grows in awareness through the fulfillment of inner purpose the inner Light of one’s consciousness fills one’s being and becomes more and more apparent.

Purpose is never negative. Thus purpose is not stated with a not.
It would be incorrect to state one’s purpose as:

My purpose is not to get married.
or My purpose is to not to be part of the group.
or My purpose is to not listen.

A purpose is a personal benefit. Therefore, purpose is about what you will learn or add to your Self, your being, your consciousness.

A purpose can be to gain or learn Self value.
A purpose can be to learn receptivity.
A purpose can be to build will power.
A purpose can be to build compassion.

When is life worth living?

Life is worth living in the now.

Now is where and when you can have purpose.
Now is where you can benefit.

When is life worth living?

In the now.
When you give moment to moment.
When you experience love.
When you give love.
When you receive love.

When you have purpose.
When you learn something that is permanent and lasting.
When you are aware of growth.

What we are here to do in life is to know truth and love. To know truth and love is to give and receive truth and love.

To learn is to receive truth into the Self for greater connectedness and greater consciousness.

Love makes truth easy to receive.

The more one comes to know the Self

the greater one’s purpose and awareness of purpose.

This is because one’s purpose goes beyond the physical life. Purpose also includes the mental and emotional life.

Practice expanding attention beyond the Self. As this is practiced, one comes to know the Self as more than a physical body.

Discipline is the way to direct the mind to know the Self. Discipline is required in order to expand one’s consciousness.

Each moment is an opportunity to practice enlightenment. Each moment is an opportunity to practice purpose.

How does one gain the motivation to discipline the whole mind? The answer is purpose.

Your essence is LIGHT. Each learning, each adding to one’s consciousness is a growth into the LIGHT of understanding and awareness.

In order to know the true nature of LIGHT one must master the still mind.

Your greatest friend is a still and disciplined mind.

This is because from a disciplined mind one can choose to be either aggressive or receptive. From a disciplined mind one can learn at a more rapid rate. From the still mind one can receive the higher consciousness.

Success is gaining greater enlightenment every day.

In order for any individual to become fulfilled, ideal and purpose must align. This means that your personal benefit, purpose, must become one with what you want to be or become.

I have discovered that the greatest personal benefit is Enlightenment. What I want to be and become is enlightened. Therefore, my ideal and purpose are singular.

The full flowering of the physical Self into the Divine or Enlightened Self must occur. Therefore, make it your ideal to be or become enlightened. It is a state of being, a state of consciousness.

We are LIGHT in essence and at the core of our being. Even the physical body is made up of atoms which are made up of a nucleus with electrons circling at a vast distance.

Therefore, most of our outer universe and most of our inner universe is empty space. The power to fulfill your purpose in life is to use LIGHT and space. Your light, the individual’s light, is the LIGHT of awareness.

Therefore, in order to fulfill your purpose make each day an opportunity for learning and the growth of awareness. Let light fill your being and expand into the space within your body and within your mind.

You may begin by visualizing or imaging your body filled with LIGHT.
See and perceive the electronic interplay of energy forces
within your body. All within the space.

There is a great potentiality in space. It is important to fill it with your LIGHT.

As we create with others, share with others, give and receive with others, we share not only our inner light but also we share our space.

This sharing of lights and space we call love.

When two people have like ideals and like purposes they often become life partners. Their love for life grows and they grow together. As they grow together their capacity to give and receive love to each other grows.

The ideal is who and what you want to become. It is the evolutionary impulse. As two people, who are marriage partners, move forward in achieving their ideal Self, their love for each other grows and matures. Each finds a greater light, a greater love and a boundless space in each other.

The will is your ability to choose your experiences and to choose to be in those experiences with awareness.

The imagination is your ability to direct your consciousness to greater learning and new or greater creation.

Together the will and imagination can accomplish greater wonders and can fulfill your life’s purpose.

Purpose is personal benefit.

There are benefits of all kinds. There are physical benefits. There are emotional benefits.

What is the value of life without purpose?

Most people do not know the purpose of life because they live in the world of the senses. The five physical senses can only give you a physical purpose to life because they only sense, receive and perceive physical things.

However, the real purpose of life is not physical because physical life is temporary.

The real purpose of life brings lasting and permanent fulfillment. How then is it possible to know this purpose that is beyond physical, sensory experience?

The answer lies in the proper and productive use of the mind, the attention, the will, and the imagination.

The mind is the vehicle, your vehicle for knowing the Self.

The will is the ability to make continuous choices toward a goal or ideal.

The imagination is the ability to image or visualize what one wants to create.

The attention is your ability to fully learn in each experience and use the mind.

You are a valuable and important person. Purpose causes one to realize this because purpose is personal benefit.

Having purpose is the ability to image a benefit in the willful activity. To gain the benefit one must be willing to receive the benefit.

Thought to remember:
Open your mind and heart to receive the love, LIGHT and truth into yourself.

What to do:
Practicing creating purpose in all you do. Ask yourself, “What is my purpose for each activity, each experience?”