Your Life Purpose is a Right

There is no purpose in life until you create one. Life doesn’t come with a predefined purpose: you create one. Carl Jung once said he’d rather be whole than good. If you embrace that idea, then the purpose of life is wholeness, and the daily mission is to live holistically. Instead of chasing ideals of “good” or “bad,” the goal becomes balance and integration.

There are dangers in living a one-sided life. If life were meant to be one-sided, it would lead to imbalance: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This kind of imbalance fuels projection, where people unconsciously deny their own traits and instead assign them to others.

A life out of balance creates -ism issues—divisions that disrupt equality, such as:

• Sexism—Where masculine and feminine aspects are either rejected or overemphasized
• Racism—Where cultural superiority or inferiority distorts relationships
• Ageism—Where youth is idolized, or elders are dismissed
• Classism—Where wealth determines perceived worth
• Environmentalism—Where humans act as rulers over nature instead of stewards

Your inner balance matters. Even within each person, imbalance leads to inner conflict. Many people struggle with inner sexism, where they reject creativity, intuition, and imagination in favour of logic and planning (or vice versa). Some may downplay their sensitivity; others may reject their analytical side. But true wholeness means embracing both.

Without balance, these divisions spill into how we see others. If we refuse to integrate different aspects of ourselves, we risk enforcing inequality onto the world, whether in relationships, culture, or the environment.

A truly equal world requires recognising the unity within diversity. It means honouring both softness and strength, reason and intuition, wisdom and youth. Respecting the environment, valuing human rights, and embracing personal wholeness all stem from the same principle: integration over separation.

When people strive for balance within, they naturally foster equality outside. Wholeness isn’t just about personal growth, it’s a foundation for a more unified world.

Anodea Judith, in her book, ‘Eastern Body, Western Mind’, proposed that there are seven core individual rights. They are:

1. The right to be here and to have
2. The right to want and to feel
3. The right to act
4. The right to love and be loved
5. The right to speak, to self-expression, and to be heard
6. The right to see or perceive
7. The right to know; information, education and truth

Judith suggests that reclaiming them all would bring about personal healing. To carry this idea further, and thus envisioning an ideal world, if every individual reclaimed each one of these rights, then the healing of humanity would occur. The healing would be the embodiment of human rights and the subsequent equality that arises between:

• inner masculine and inner feminine,
• between all genders,
• between countries,
• between cultures,
• between religion and spirituality
• between personal values and philosophies,
• between classes and
• between humans and nature and much more.

This would virtually eliminate division and conflict between opposing forces. It is an ideal that may or may not ever completely materialise, but striving for a reduction between these opposites is holistically motivated. It is a demonstration of how much one values the concept of equality. Instead of being one-sided, it is a move toward becoming whole.

Since there is no purpose in your life until you create one, what will your purpose be? When will you begin and how will you do it? Here’s how one way to figure it out.

1. Make a time to begin your life purpose. You have to appoint yourself with your life purpose. Have you made an appointment with it yet? What date and time have you appointed to begin living your purpose?

2. Claim your seven human rights. How many of the seven core human rights are lacking in your life? What are they? When will you claim those rights? What will you do to claim them? If your rights remain unclaimed by you, then how will you help others to claim the same right?

3. Choose an -ism issue. What –ism issue lights the fires of hell in you? Which –ism issue animates you by stirring you up the most, and begging you to take action on it? Which one drives you like a raging bull to equalise their opposing forces? Choose one and stand up for it no matter what.

Humans are graced with the enormous privilege of having the option to choose their purpose in life. Ennui, as distinct from depression, is a state of mind for the self-indulgent. Your purpose is your choice. Fulfilling it may be the ultimate of all human rights. Your purpose is based on your mission to reclaim human rights. Your vision is equality, if that is something you value, and it starts with you.

Reference: Judith, Anodea. Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self. California: Celestial Arts, 2004