There Are No Small Lives, Only Small Minds
“You are in the world for a purpose now, not your purpose, but a purpose that was given to you before you came, a purpose that is related to these times and to the Great Waves of change that are coming to the world.” — Marshall Vian Summers, The Origin This was shocking when I read…
More Than Just an Idea
I have been meditating for nearly twenty years now. And while it has given me more calm, focus and peace in daily life, I still don’t have a handle on my life’s greater purpose. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe. But there is also the possibility that I’m doing it right — that one’s life purpose…
No One Has Come Here by Accident
“No one has come here by accident. Everyone has been sent for a purpose. This purpose remains undiscovered within you, but you must find it, for that is the great pursuit in life.” — Marshall Vian Summers, How God Speaks to Humanity I used to think that life in general, and my life in particular, was random;…
Ideas Are No Substitute for Experience
Everyone has ideas, and opinions, but ideas are no substitute for experience. Anyone can talk all day long from a street corner about God and higher purpose. Anyone can pontificate about how many angels exist on the head of a pin. However, they will never be any closer to their life purpose. Ideas are no substitute for…
Don’t Waste Your Freedom
You may think your times spent as a student were times of freedom, because you were young and had few responsibilities. Perhaps you considered your parents to be very un-free and blamed them for being tied down to things. Perhaps you are a student yourself and you may wish that this would continue forever. But what is…
Serve the Truth
To serve the Truth.What does that mean? How can I serve the truth? How can I know the truth, let alone serve it? Everyone knows the truth when they experience it. The truth is not an idea – it’s a feeling. The feeling of doing what is right is the truth. And similarly, doing what you…
Life Purpose Advice from Hunter S. Thompson
A friend recently pointed to this letter from famous 20th century journalist Hunter S. Thompson who gave life purpose advice to a friend who sought his counsel. At first, Thompson sets the ground properly by advising that no human can tell another human what their life purpose is. Only an individual, through careful inner listening…
Ego in Life
The antidote to an over active mind that tries to take control – another word for the ego in life – is the spiritual practice of Steps to Knowledge. This practice emphasizes stillness and a real accounting of our everyday experience in order to step away from the false messages created by our ego. Our…
Life is Not Chaotic
“Be happy that you have a higher purpose in life, for this means that your life is meaningful and not chaotic. It means that you have an origin and a destiny beyond this world. It means that life is eternal even as it passes through this temporary phase of worldly existence. “Be grateful, then, that…
When You Know You Know
“When you know, you know. And your choice is made already. It is this experience that you will want to seek out in your decision making at this point. Decisions made without this are merely presumptions. They may have great emotion but they do not have a foundation. Those who have purpose are not burdened…