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Living Your Purpose By Neale Donald Walsch One must understand the difference between "doingness" and "beingness." The world needs your Light now. Not tomorrow. Now! Of course, you know this. You only have to expose yourself to the news reports today to see why. Your life is about to change, in some very important ways. So is the life of everyone else. All of life is changing, everywhere on the planet. You cannot have missed this. It is happening on every level: political, geophysical, economical, theological, psychological and philosophical. Without possessing the tools with which to fashion your dreams, you will quite likely be at the effect of all of these changes, rather than the cause of them. The steps in this process are as follows: 1. Get clear about the purpose of your life. 2. Translate your purpose from Doingness to Beingness. 3. Adopt right now the state of being you have described, no matter what you are doing. 4. Observe opposition and call it opportunity. 5. Allow form to create itself. The first thing to understand here is that these are not just pretty words. Your life is going to change ... with you or without you. Life is very impartial. It doesn’t care whether you were part of creating change, or just an uninvolved bystander. It gives you the choice, of course, but it doesn’t care which you choose. It keeps on with its Process, and it does it with or without you as an active partner. Life has no choice but to show up this way, so you can expect it as sure as you’re reading this. It is important to understand the steps of this process if you are going to be a Bringer of the Light. It is a process you must understand, or you cannot hope to undertake this work. However, before exploring this process, you should be thanked for being the kind of person who would want to read this. You don’t know how much that means to the world right now.
Your Life Purpose
If you’re like most people, you may not have given Life Purpose much thought in your earlier years. As a result, you may have spent a great deal of time doing things, which at the end of your life will not matter; will mean nothing. What you really have to do if you want to get on the fast track of evolution is to put each golden moment of Life to its highest and best use. You cannot know what that is unless and until you decide on a Purpose. That is, you cannot decide how to get where you are going until you decide where you are going.
Doing vs. Being
One must understand the difference between “doing” and “being,” and between “doingness” and “beingness.” “Doingness” is a function of the body. “Beingness” is a function of the soul. Most of the world has this “being/doing” paradigm backwards. People are running around everywhere doing, doing, doing, and hoping by this device to one day achieve a state of beingness (“happy,” “peaceful,” “abundant,” “enlightened” ... whatever) that will make it all worthwhile. Understand that beingness is a State in which one is, not an action which one takes. You cannot do “happy,” you can only be “happy,” depending upon what you decide to be. The sad thing about all this is that for most people, it doesn’t work out that way. They spend their whole life doing this and doing that, doing this and doing that, and all they wind up with is a great big pile of “do-do.” Adopt right now the state of being you have described, no matter what you are doing. So translate your purpose from Doingness to Beingness now. Take any doingness statement which may have found itself into your declaration of Life Purpose and translate it into a beingness description.
Adopt Now the State of Being You Have Described
There is no brighter Light in the Universe than the Light of your Beingness. How do you shine the Light of your Being? By first moving into Right Livelihood—which means by not allowing yourself to do anything for a living which violates your deepest inner sense of Who You Are. So don’t go out now and just quit your job. That’s not what we are recommending, and that’s not what this process is all about. Yet do not be surprised if, as a result of the process of moving towards Beingness that you have undertaken, you discover a few weeks or months from now that you are no longer engaged in the work which currently fills your days. It is in this moment that you will discover: You are one of the courageous ones: someone who has chosen to make a life, rather than a living.
Observe Opposition and Call it Opportunity
As soon as you decide who and what you are, everything unlike it will come into the space. It is now important for you to also know that in a very real metaphysical sense, there is “a light at the end of the tunnel.” The appearance and the effect of these negative opposites we have talked about is but temporary.
Allow Form to Create Itself
What form shall your service take? There are two ways to go about turning your heart’s deepest desire into physical form. You may seek to make your desires fit into a predetermined form, or you may allow the form to create itself. It is strongly suggested that the latter course be taken. When we insist that our desires be made manifest in a particular form, we, in effect, limit God. Yet when we leave every option open, we make a space for marvelous creation.
Conclusion
There is something burning inside of you which you know would, if ever fully released and fully expressed, make the lives of others better. There’s a lot of pain out there. There’s a lot of darkness. The world needs your Light right now. So ... glad you could show up. Now the fun starts. Now the challenge gets underway in earnest. Now the Healing begins. With you as the Healer. That’s why you came to Earth, in this body, in this time and in this place.
Taken from the booklet Living Your Purpose - Designing The Life of Your Dreams. For more information about Neale Donald Walsch and the Living Your Purpose booklet, free mini-course, and Retreat, go to www.LivingYourPurpose.org. |
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