Finding My True Purpose
It all happened almost spontaneous actually. Today I decided to be a meditation teacher sometime in the future, and just weeks before that I decided to be a Life Coach. In fact I start my training Life Coach training with Alice Muir Training today. Over my many years of meditating, spiritual reading, personal enquiry and having faced the challenges of being a business owner, quality of life was still not what I wanted it be. There is always some past glory or failure, or some future fear or potential better life that took up the space in my mind and life. I read a quote today “Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change,not and end, of miseries.” – Lucious Annaeus Senenca
I guess I felt that through creating wealth and a providing a secure financial future I would be in a position to take a chance then and do what I really loved. But now I know, there is never a right time or the perfect time to start something you truly know and love, but now. Because now is all there ever is. I was stuck , in fear, seeking the very thing the perfect place to be in, when it was closer to me than the tip of my nose!
Ultimately what is it that we are all looking for? A life of happiness without sorrow. To be love. I tried to find the ‘…peace that surpasses all understanding’ for so long. Most recently in various property businesses, in which I had some limited success, but like everything else I tried it just didn’t satisfy. What is success but a predefined goal which we set ourselves to achieve often setting ourselves up for failure? I discovered however that the success mindset I took on was in of itself part of the problem. Since then I realised that it is not success per se but rather the quality of my attention in the present moment, that one moment , which is all we ever have, that determines our ‘success’. Not in society’s, family, friends, spouse or employers estimation but in fulfilling our true purpose which is to be the love that we are looking for in this world.
It is the quality of our attention, the realisation of who and what we are at the core and the gradual, sometimes immediate dropping off of all the stuff we identify with that we call ‘me’. It is through this ‘work’ that we can begin to truly live the way we always intended to and in doing so not only help be the happiness we seek but also help others find themselves too.
To be space, to be stillness….
Exactly how this will happen I don’t know, and it probably doesn’t matter. I didn’t achieve the financial cushion I was striving for after all. But I have found the courage and clarity I need to make a life decision right now. To live my life in alignment with God’s will and purpose, especially through the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.
I have begun with this blog, and will begin online with an ezine for people who are looking to find their true purpose in life, and for people who wish to deal with the blocks to realising their true selves and living in alignment with that. Meantime, why don’t you go over to a new website I have put up that will help bring us together as an online community to inspire one another to find our true purpose in life. Let’s continue to grow and learn to be part of the new earth that is surely what we need now.
Love and Peace,
Gavin J Gowans