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Do you ever wonder what might be the real purpose of life?
A simple, pragmatic way to find our life’s purpose is to start minimizing and abandoing unwholesome actions and start maximizing and establishing wholesome ones. (See lists below). If we do so, a stage automatically comes when our actions eventually are driven by life's real purpose: to become happy and enlightened. This stage comes in the lives of those few people who consistently strive for self-improvement and self-realization. Most often, this stage comes during the mid-life period (between the ages of 35 and 45 years). It is commonly and mistakenly known as a mid-life crisis, because it is often accompanied by emotional pain which arises due to subconscious resistence to our innate quest for spiritual evolution.
But it actually is not a crisis. It’s a blessing. We can see the blessing in this period if we become aware of what life is telling us. The majority of people miss this golden opportunity and end up living in a rut forever chasing endless worldly desires that can never bring real happiness.
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SOUL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, MAY 29, 2009
Once we discover our life's real purpose and perform actions that align with it, then only our creativity unfolds. The newfound work becomes tireless and delightful. There is joy in what we do. There is bliss in action. And this represents real success. Eventually, through such creative, joyful, and blissful actions, wise people establish themselves in life's real purpose.
THIS WEEK:
DISCOVERING LIFE'S REAL PURPOSE
Acquiring
Accumulating
Attaching
Clinging
Conning
Corrupting
Craving
Dominating
Exhibiting
Excessive cheering
Excessive consuming
Excessive entertaining
Excessive partying
Flattering
Gambling
Hoaxing
Intoxicating
Lying
Longing
Lusting
Stealing
Scamming
Sexually overindulging
Passion
Patronizing
Pestering
Possessing
Showing off
Stalking
Womanizing
Accusing
Aggravating
Arguing
Antagonizing
Being Mean
Competing
Complaining
Condemning
Crying
Envying
Fighting
Forcing
Getting bored
Hating
Killing
Punishing
Polluting
Regretting
Resenting
Slandering
Advertising
Becoming suspicious
Believing
Bewildering
Celebrating
Dogmatizing
Endorsing
Fearing
Feeling restless
Forgetting
Grieving
Holding back
Indoctrinating
Lazing out
Manipulating
Judging
Justifying
Mystifying
Opining
Overreaching
Performing rituals blindly
Politicizing
Standardizing
Self-mortifying
Self-aggrandizing
Self-satisfying
Worshipping without understanding
Worrying
Admiring
Agreeing
Appreciating
Attending wisely
Balancing
Befriending
Caring
Concentrating
Contemplating
Cooling
Cooperating
Detaching
Developing pure understanding
Devoting
Discovering
Empathizing
Enabling
Enjoying
Equalizing
Establishing faith with understanding
Fearing wrongdoing
Forgiving
Gifting
Giving
Gladdening
Guarding mindfulness
Healing
Helping
Honoring
Investigating
Just being
Lightening up
Listening
Neutral observing
Neutralizing
Meditating
Moderately consuming
Neither believing, nor disbelieving
Non-adhering
Non-discriminating
Non-disturbing
Non-forgetting
Non-hindering
Non-opposing
Non-resisting
Non-wobbling
Observing silence
Penetrating
Promoting virtue
Promoting welfare
Purifying
Rejoicing
Remembering
Removing others’ suffering
Renouncing
Resolving
Respecting
Resting
Serving
Simplifying
Smiling
Studying
Sympathizing
Thanking
Trusting
Wielding
Wondering
Worshipping with understanding
Minimize & Abandon Following
Greedy Actions
Hateful Actions Deluded Actions
Hateful Actions Deluded Actions"Easier said than done."
I hear you whispering.
I agree. It is not so easy. But it is not difficult either. It is simply a matter of skill. And that skill can be developed through the practice of SOUL Meditations. Next week, let's discuss that.
For now, I invite you to consider the following:
Maximize & Establish Following
Wholesome Actions
