Realising your life purpose creates a paradox. Externally, very little tends to change. Your daily routines, responsibilities, and interactions with the world remain. Yet internally, everything transforms.
Popular psycho-spiritual teachings often suggest external change as proof of inner growth, but many ancient and modern mystics, such as those in A Course in Miracles, assert that the external world is an illusion. If this is true, then external circumstances hold no inherent power unless you invest your energy into them. The risk lies in directing so much of your power outward that your inner life is depleted, leaving you running on empty instead of full.
A full life is not defined by material abundance but by a deep sense of fulfillment. While survival and success in the external world are necessary, if you let material possessions, approval-seeking, or recognition to dominate your focus it will extract a far greater cost than just your health. It can drain your sense of meaning.
When you discover your life purpose, your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and perspectives shift. You become lighter, stronger, and grow wiser. Wisdom emerges from experience. It refines your ability to navigate life with balance and presence. Even when thrown off course, as life inevitably does, you find your centre with greater ease.
You become both a master and a perpetual student.
Everything and nothing change when you find your purpose. That is the paradox.
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