I think there's a fundamental question we have to ask ourselves.
Is the point of life to survive or to thrive?
Are you here just to pay your bills and to fulfill your parents expectations?
Are you here to just work that nine to five and get by and pay that health insurance and that car?
Are you here to show your neighbors that you have a stable life,
Your friends that you're happy,
The world that you mean something,
That you have value?
Or are you here for something deeper?
Are you here for something more?
There's this great quote from Pablo Picasso,
The meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give it away.
And there's another quote I love from Emerson,
He says the only person you're destined to become is the person you decide to be.
So today wherever you are in this moment driving your car,
Sitting and meditating,
Taking a walk outside,
Whatever you're doing,
Are you living on purpose?
Are you living with intention?
Or are you suffering from intention deficit disorder?
Are you suffering from being a cyber zombie?
Are you suffering from distraction,
From trying to fulfill other people's expectations?
Are you suffering from trying to show the world that you're important?
Or just trying to survive all the time?
Or can you feel that spark of life inside you?
Can you feel the meaning of life,
The energy of the one consciousness that permeates everything moving through you,
Pushing you to be better,
To evolve,
To grow,
To love,
To share,
To create,
To live an intentional life,
To learn how to forgive and let go of resentment,
To heal,
To accept sadness and the existential feeling of aloneness that we all have,
And to grow through it and transform.
Can you accept your path that you're here to wake up,
To find enlightenment,
To be happy,
To share?
Are you truly asking the right questions and spending your energy and time in the right places?
Or do you keep getting diverted off your path,
Distracted?
In this moment,
Can you bring yourself back?
Can you pull yourself back from the future and out of the past and anchor yourself into this human form that you've been gifted by four billion years of evolution on this planet and billions of more years of evolution of our universe and beyond?
Can you accept this gift of life,
This incredible unique experience of having a human brain and consciousness and the ability to live and to create?
Are you able to accept this mission and really start to live a life on purpose and be done with all the bullshit and all the distractions?
That's the invitation.
That's the invitation every moment of every day and you can say no a thousand times and it only takes one time to say yes to shift your entire life.
Why not make this moment that moment where you say yes?
There's this quote,
Be realistic,
Plan for a miracle.
I love that.
Be realistic and plan for a miracle and this moment is that miracle.
As Natalie Goldberg,
The author said,
This is your life.
You're responsible for it.
You will not live forever.
Don't wait.
I hope that you step up to your potential and your purpose and really live a meaningful life and share your gifts.
Give your gifts to the world.
I love you.
Be well.
