What Is My Purpose In Life?

Finally, after having looked at a wide variety of different questions we arrive at trying to answer that age-old question, what is my purpose in life? In many respects this is the question which has generally become associated with the pursuit of humanity’s philosophical efforts. In other words, it is widely accepted by the collective that philosophy, as a field of study, is humanity’s attempt to arrive at some conclusion with regards to what the purpose of life is. It is hoped that by arriving at this broader understanding of the cosmos we can then each individually understand our own individual purpose within this much wider context. In many respects, coming to some resolution with regards to this would also naturally result in us coming to understand the purpose of everything because it is all a part of Life.

This way of looking at the question, and philosophy generally, is a very simplistic view of things which results in us struggling to develop our perception beyond a certain point. A stage towards our further development is represented by the moment when we shift from trying to answer our questions to instead looking at the reasons why we ask certain questions in the first place. In other words, what is the root cause of these questions arising within us. Such an insight may seem strange because, up until this point in our lives, we will often have been entirely focused on trying to answer the many questions we find arising within us. In some way, this is your perception of what you are doing when you read these articles; you think that reading the articles is providing you with answers. By reading the writings here in more detail though you soon come to see that this is not truly what is happening, there is something far deeper going on, which only becomes apparent after some stage in the process has been reached.

If we only ever superficially look at questions, we simply end up trying to answer them. There is though the option of not answering the question, and instead asking ourselves why this question, and all of the questions we hold for that matter, exist in the first place. It is here, at this deeper and clearer level of perception, that we start to become aware of the fact that the majority of our questions only typically exist because of the existence of a block in our own conscious perception. The implications of this are monumental because it implies that, if we developed a perfectly clear perception, the questions that we are looking for the answers to would simply not exist.

It is not within the scope of this article to unpack this statement fully, but the reader will be able to read other articles which are also related to this discussion that will further help to develop their perception so that they can come to realise the full implications of this statement. Once we come to realise that the same principle applies to every single one of our questions, we then come to see that the best thing we can do to aid our own development is to simply acknowledge that we do have a question when we have one, and at the same time recognise that the existence of a question must also indicate the existence of a block in our conscious perception. Hopefully the reader is able to see how this particular discussion relates to this article, the very title of the article being a question which many will be looking to answer by reading the article.

It is worth pointing out that a major delay in our progress with the process is simply because so many people struggle to admit to themselves that they have a block in their conscious perception. You see, once it has been identified as a part of the framework that the ‘ideal’ state for someone to be in is an unblocked state of conscious perception, it becomes difficult for people to admit to themselves that they do have a block in their conscious perception because they subconsciously think that doing so would represent a backwards step in their progress. The point here is that the block exists and continues to effect that individual whether it is something that they have recognized the existence of or not. In fact, consciously recognizing the block helps us greatly because we can then hold it in our awareness and at least try to resolve it.

Therefore, if the realisation comes about that knowing that a question’s existence is an indication of the existence of a block in conscious perception, we find that many people are inclined to try and convince themselves that this question is not something that exists for them. This is something similar to closing our eyes because we don’t want to see something, but failing to see that closing our eyes does not change the fact that it is still there. Not being honest with one’s self will often greatly hinder the process, because this lack of authenticity becomes an additional block in conscious perception which needs to be resolved at some point in the future. The whole point is that we are trying to recognise the blocks in our conscious perception so that we can resolve and remove them. This will simply not be possible if we deny their existence from the very start.