One Life With Millions Of Purposes

Viktor Frankl says that the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. And is was those lines that made me think about the purpose in life. Is there a single purpose in life? Why most of us struggle for a single one in life?

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Thank you. We create all meaning through our perception of experience. The choice is ours.

You are so right! I think I have a major purpose in life to introduce people to yoga. However, after that I’ve had & still have a million purposes 🙏🏼

I found this very interesting and thought provoking. I do think that we do always have choices as we move forward in our lives. Thank you.

Thought provoking. Thank you.
I have also been assessing my way forward.

Hi Spiros,
Thank you for your thoughts on Purpose. I battled for years seeking and searching for this ‘one’ purpose I was supposed to find and follow. I missed out on so much joyful living but I also gained wisdom. My nose was so close to the ground sniffing out this elusive ’purpose’ that I often forgot to look up and appreciate, enjoy the beauty all around me as I passed by. I’ve figured out that it isn’t one thing. I agree with you, I have a multitude of purposes, and as my yoga teacher taught me, my Dharma or purpose will encompass wider and over arching purposes, but also the Dharma of this moment I have right now. This may be to write you this comment and sip my coffee. It’s simple. 🙃

Very thought provoking Namaste

Thank you for this. So often we feel we need to have only one purpose and we feel lost if we haven't yet found that one thing! However, what Victor Frankl says so resonates with me - ones purpose changes constantly. For me, my purpose has changed over the seasons of my life, depending on what's happening at that time.

WOW!! Powerful and provocative
Thank you ❤️

Loved hearing a new way of thinking about purpose. It really resonates with me. Thank you!

That was totally amazing and so grateful to you for opening up “another” door to the meaning of this life. Thank you thank you 🙏🏻

I agree with this point!

Thank you. Enjoyed very much to start my new day w this thought.

Yes, Spiros, one’s purpose in life does change—over the years, when situations change, when you need something new—as a matter of fact, it’s always changing! If we can recognize and honor the changes, we can greet them with awareness and make the most of them!
Thank you for the quote from Frankl, and your inspiring words.
Donna

Very thought-provoking!

Wonderful and thought provoking!
Thank you 🙏🏽

Very good reflection. I believe that just like for meaning. We can have several purposes throughout our life, as some of our values, our belief system, our identity.ies, our circumstances change and evolve too.

Thank you Spiros. Good reflection on our purpose, which we tend to overthink sometimes. It is quite empowering to think that we can redesign ourselves and even our life purpose on a regular basis. 🙏🤍🌿

So true, when I was younger I had a lust to see the world. Walk the olive groves of Greece, swim in the sea touching Turkey, view the North pole, trudge through snow in the Alps. I did all these things with gusto. I wanted to birth babies. I did. I suckled and loved them and watched them grow and launch. I am now formulating my next ‘purpose’. Thank you for this.

Thank you, I've struggled with this - I need to get out and try more things, I've felt so stuck for years. I hope Covid disappears soon. Take good care all xx

I very much enjoyed your line of thought here. I agree, why just one purpose? Are we not given multiple talents for a reason? Who we are changes from one moment to the next, as we expand so should our consciousness. Thank you, very thought provoking!

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Great teaching!

Fabulous
Many thanks!

Thank you Spiros, inspiring and provocative indeed. A fresh new outlook for someone who has been long constrained by the one life one purpose concept.

Thought Provoking, Yes!!! Thank you, for sharing your perspective. 💜💜🙏🙏

Thanks Spiros. My adult life has been an unending struggle for 'purpose'. It's good to know I'm not alone in trying to figure this out as well as having a different perspective to remind myself of - millions of purposes - lovely.

I appreciate this very much💜

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Loved this talk from your soothing voice to your thought provoking message. Victor Frankl’s book was a required reading when I was in university in the early 80’s. It has remained inspiring over those many years. In reflecting on your words, I feel that I have had a calling in life that has manifested in many ways. There has always been a common sense of purpose in everything I have done. Like a hub at the center of a wheel. My calling or purpose has radiated out in unexpected and powerful ways. Seeking meaning in all that we do and experience is the key. Thank you for inviting me into deeper reflection of my life.

Very interesting Spiro. It certainly takes the pressure off from searching for that one absolute meaning in our lives. It’s true that we are so multifaceted and can find meaning in so many individual aspects of our lives. Thank you

Fabulous! Very thought provoking. Thank you.

So helpful to me right now thank you

Thank you so much. You ve open me a window of possibilities!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this big question. Interesting perspective and I think I would agree with it. Some questions still seek for answer in my head and might seek for new ones every day (just as you say). 🙏🤔

Definitely very thought provoking. Thank you for this idea. I am thinking now on maybe how our purpose in life does change as circumstances in our life change. Just the thought I needed today.

Definitely thought provoking. 🙏 I appreciate your perspectives.
Thank you💕

Very thought provoking. I reflected on many purposes I have had in the past and experiences that changed direction of those. Thank you.

Wonderful little talk , I have read this masterful piece also , and handed this book to my son , for he seemed curious.I agree that life is in constant flux, that there are many meanings to this life for us all as individuals.As we change through life , our reasons and meaning changes, impermanence is every where.
Thank you for this beautiful thought provoking message.

Thank You Spiros, this was definitely thought provoking. I read V. Frankl’s book as well, and it makes sense that a person’s meaning of life changes based on the need or what is important. Your talk helped me put things into perspective and made me want to assess and seek out the truly important things right now. I am glad I found this and will listen again as a reminder each time. 🙏🏻

Deeply profound. I am grateful. 🙏🏻♥️

Thanks, Spiros! Your talk is a real paradigm-shifter for me and just what I needed to hear. I'm going to listen to it again right now! My thought as someone from an Indian-African background is that it's been a challenge over my lifetime to let go of all the purposes I served for others and to discover my own. The idea that this discovery can be moment to moment is extremely helpful. Thank you sincerely 😊.

Very interesting and thought provoking.

Thank you for your contribution to awareness. I read, Man's Search for Meaning when I was a very depressed teenager, looking for answers to my long time suffering as a child. It was very inspiring. Thank you again for the reminder. Another book that inspired me then was..When bad things happen to good people.

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

I found this very thought provoking. I think we have different purposes at different times in our lives, and the thing is to flow between them without judgement and with love. Thank you Spiros 💜x

Thought provoking! Thank you for the insights. I will revisit this and share the idea with my family.

I have been thinking about the same topic lately. My fear has been that, through misguided decisions in my life, I missed out on my true path, my true purpose. An idea that has been helping me with this is to think of it as “a life *of* purpose” rather than “a life’s purpose”. Thank you for sharing this.

Very thought provoking!! I enjoyed listening to you & found it interesting. Finding my life purpose is something I’m trying to discover!

So true! Reflecting on it, my purpose in life has changed over the years. I also don't believe we have one big purpose. For me purpose in life is in the many moments and is expressed moment by moment. Like meaning, it is framed within the situation we find ourselves to be in and what is important to us at that time. However there always seems to a core motivation or thread that sits behind the purpose that is forever present to each moment. Like a life script?

Interesting & something I will give some thought to. Thanks for the introduction & I will no doubt revisit this in the future!

WONDERFULLY Thought-Provoking❣️ Thank you for sharing his WISE words which resound within my heart and mind. 🙏🏻💕

The idea that our view on what our life means varies according to how we see things at a given moment has a lot of truth in it.

Much food for thought there, thanks

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, giving me something to think about as well