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November 2009 
What was the last hint you were given of your purpose?
Posted on Feb 11th, 2009
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Ted
Ted
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 11, 2009:
My purpose is what I choose.
I acknowledge no ultimate external control over me, and I also acknowledge I am but one of billions of entities capable of determining their own purpose.
I oppose strongly cultural imperitives that teach people that they have no real control, that there "purpose" is externally given, and they are not taught to fully develop or exercise their creative powers.
I say - choose your own purpose.
Look to your deepest intuitions in doing so, by all means - yet own your own choice.
Accept all that the universe has to give you, acknowledge the gift in it, and then exercise your power to create, and choose.
My 2c worth for the evening.
Love to all
I acknowledge no ultimate external control over me, and I also acknowledge I am but one of billions of entities capable of determining their own purpose.
I oppose strongly cultural imperitives that teach people that they have no real control, that there "purpose" is externally given, and they are not taught to fully develop or exercise their creative powers.
I say - choose your own purpose.
Look to your deepest intuitions in doing so, by all means - yet own your own choice.
Accept all that the universe has to give you, acknowledge the gift in it, and then exercise your power to create, and choose.
My 2c worth for the evening.
Love to all
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Ted
I agree with you. The Christians say that God has a purpose for each one of us, and it is our task to find that purpose?
I believe we have much more choice and power over our lives than we have been told (conditioned). We can create and choose our purpose (which I am just now learning to do) or we can let others do it for us (which I allowed my parents, my partners, my society to do for me up until now). I trust in my innate goodness and kindness and know whatever purpose(s) I choose will be for my highest good, and therefore, for everyone’s highest good. barbara
A good 2 cents worth Ted…….with the external signs,I make choices…it is a dance with the universe for me…and leading depends on the moment….love to you…R
I have to agree with Waterheart a bit on this one. I think it is a dance between personal choices and being led by something higher, but I disagree that is is external. In my beleifs, that something higher is WITHIN all of us. We may perceive it as external and separate, due to our ignorance (ignorance in the sense of lack of Supreme Knowledge, or bliss, like in the Upanishads). So, is it the ego (small self) making those choices or is it the Higher Self within making the choices? The dance is figuring that out, for me!
Ahhh- the question of identity !
What am I ?
Which of the many identities within am “I” ?
I think the answer has to be - all of them - from time to time.
It seems to me the real value (to self and others) comes from raising the awareness to the level that it can see all of the many “selves”, and exercise choice in the appropriateness of response on each occasion.
Speaking from personal experience - I fail more often than I succeed, and sometimes I succeed.
Sometimes what happens around me has a quality of the miraculous.
Sometimes my experience has the quality of “another perfect day in paradise” - and sometimes not.
It seems to me that there is a very tight integration between body and the many levels of awareness - they are related on many levels - from atomic through to systems.
There does not appear to be any theoretical limit to the number of levels.
There does not apppear to be any need to invoke any externality of consciousness to explain any part of it.
Quite a magical thing to contemplate - thinking that here in New Zealand it is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin - the man who showed such genius in bringing together so many observations of physical and biological processes to give us an understanding of how such complexity as us can arrise from small variations over long periods.
So many others have filled in so much of the detail, in the intervening centuries, and there are still gaps enough for anyone with an interest to spend a productive and enjoyable lifetime in the study (and probably always will be).
For me it is almost pure magic to sit here, atop a peninsular with a panoramic view of the South Pacific ocean, and also 9,000ft mountains just 10 miles away; and understand the processes by which both myself and this planet, and everything upon, have come into being. Not every step of the detail, but the big, broad brush strokes, that from suitable distance paint a marvelous picture.
It appears that “God” is one of the biggest mistakes that humanity has made; yet many of the fruits of the deeper and mystical enquiry into “god” still have relevance, though within a new explanatory framework.
I salute Charles Darwin, and every other human being who makes the mental effort to question the assumptions of their cultural conditioning, and has the courage to trust and to test their own intuitions; and to come out of the process with love and compassion for all life.
Be a great life!
Ted
brilliantly said Ted,I like the new explanatory framework…yes, I am with you looking out and thinking….we are a great life…thanks for this fine post.