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The One-Minute Way to Know Your Purpose
It’s to know yourself.
Need help figuring out what you want to do for a living? How about finding your soul mate? Or make money doing what you love without living in a tent down the canal by the freeway?
This short article is about a quick exercise I’ve found helpful for getting clarity and confidence to position myself as a self-employed professional who lives an extraordinary life even though it wasn’t always easy.
To get what you want, you need to know what you want.
To know what you want, you have to know who you are.
And you’re more than you may think if you’re like most of us.
The Zohar Defines Our Purpose
The Zohar is the translated text of ancient Kabbalistic wisdom. It teaches us that our human purpose is to know our gifts, develop them, and share them.
There’s a lot of wisdom from mystics of all the great faiths. I know this because Comparative Religion was the only “A” I ever got in school. And the Zohar is brilliant esoteric wisdom of Hebrew mystics.
Oddly enough, the Christian mystics say our purpose is to know Christ. The Greek word for Christ is Christos, the anointed one and the Messiah.
