What do I believe is the purpose of my life?
Posted: February 10th, 2007 | Author: ted | Filed under: humanize, meaning in life, personal work | 2 Comments »This is my rough draft answer to this question from a personal work meeting today. Maybe rough draft is best here.
The meaning of my life …
My purposes for being here are small. My piece in a much larger vision is small. I am here to play my small part in humanizing the earth. To do this, I need to humanize myself. I also am here to humanize those around me. I’m here to learn to be more gentle. I’m here to reduce my own violence towards myself and others. Once I’ve reduced, it is my purpose to reduce it some more. And again.
My purpose is to share with others that change is possible, it is to see the best in those others and invite them to see that best in themselves as well.
Small things. Seeing the best in myself so that I can act toward others with … A gentleness. A kindness. A clarity about what I see as the
best in the them.
Wow Ted!
I love the part about the reduction of violence toward ourselves and others. It takes a very strong consciousness of where one is in the present to do that. I think that is the hardest things to do…to be aware that every decision we make in life, no matter how small does effect the world we live in.
Thanks, Heather. Awareness is a big part of this, yes.