We have given away our powers to so many external media. We think our thoughts and actions are ours – they are not. Most of our subconscious and conscious today is dictated upon by advertisements.

This is why I am so passionate about helping people wake up – just snap out of it and take back their sense of free will. Live for something more than “just another day” or “just another pay check”.

There is so much more to life and I welcome your additions and thoughts here greatly!

@ LANCE – Your words as always deeply touch my heart and my being, and I am also very humbled by your feedback. Many thanks my dear friend.

I am glad you enjoyed Marcome’s music. I really feel it is a nice addition for our topics and the overall feel of EvolvingBeings.com – and when I saw that video, it just griped me within so deep, and spoke to me like no words every could.

And yes Lance, we are all on a journey and it is never about the destination I feel – but about the journey. We have many paths, many choices and many ways we can take this journey. As you and I both know, it is personal and not one is better than any other.

The only thing I do urge people to do is try to be more conscious today than yesterday. I really feel strongly about the expansion of our consciousness as I saw the huge impacts it had in and on my life. When we start seeing when we look, the world really looks different and we see it more deeply not only on a surface level. And it is that depth that I believe our spirits are based on, and which they seek.

This discussion is one that can go on and on, as we consider truly what it means to us. Just as us, it has the potential to be infinite!

@ NADIA – Hi Nadia and thank you for your thoughts and feedback :)

I resonate with what you and your friend where talking about. At no time does what you mention speak louder to me than when I think of people who are not only not on any spiritual journey, but ones who do not believe altogether in any spiritual aspect or greater entity or bigger meaning to life. It is of course their life, and their choice, but I feel almost a sadness that they do not allow themselves to experience a grander and richer version of life that the depth of spirituality provides.

For me at least it gives immediate meaning and purpose just to know that there is so much more to life than the physical, material world.

@ KARL – Yes, I so agree. When one considers their work environment as one with no meaning or purpose, I can totally see how quickly it can turn into a mundane pattern, which one day leaves us wondering “what the heck are we doing there? OR even with our lives?

@ KAUSHIK – Thank you so much Kaushik for sharing your thoughts, I so enjoyed reading your comment.

You brought up a great point about living out of ego, and also about inviting that greater stillness into our lives, which allows us to see so much more clearly – and know!

That is one of the things I try to explain to people when I talk about material items and the material world – it is not that they are “bad” – it is just that they have obstructed our eyes from truly seeing, our ears from truly hearing, and our minds from just being.

@ PATRICIA – Hi Patricia and thank you so much for sharing your experiences and thoughts. I am glad to hear the music resonated with you too.

Yes, I do believe that your purpose is to question and seek, for when you do that your consciousness grows. As we learn, as we acquire new information we then exercise our free will as to what we are going to do with it. Those of us interested in evolving will use it for the greater good. And those who aren’t won’t. Either way the choice is ours.

Whether we take on being like you described your mother, or you or me or any of us here – it is ultimately our own personal journey, as Lance pointed out as well.

And that is part of the great fun of being here – of expressing our spiritual selves in the physical. It is an amazing place to be!

And whether you wrestle through each day or glide through it, I believe that each one of us picks and caters each of our journeys to reflect exactly what we need for the next stage of our growth and evolution as spiritual beings.

@ TESS – That is fantastic indeed!

You know when I first started writing, I was a little afraid and hesitant to say words like “I am God” or “We are God” , etc…
But today I say them because I feel them and thus believe them.

We are aspects of God – made in the image and likeness indeed – individuations of God expressing itself and getting to know its infinite self and how awesome is that!

@ JAY – My God Jay, what a fantastic bounty of thoughts you have brought into this conversation.

My heart is exclaiming wildly within me “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

You know Jay, your comment goes along the lines of what I just described to Tess above. I truly feel and agree with all that you have said – because within me, I TRULY FEEL IT!!!!

But you said it in so much detail and so beautifully, that no one can misunderstand or take the wrong way.

Yes, God is that almighty presence that is the all, and yet cannot experience all those things you mentioned… and that is where we come in. We can be all those millions and billions of diverse individuations.

We are God experiencing itself and isn’t that purpose enough! This is also why today I really feel that everything is perfect. Many people still call this or that a tragedy. But is it really? Our souls are eternal, and we come through for many diverse experiences so who is to call this or that “bad” when we have so much to experience!

@ STACEY – Hi Stacey and thank you for adding your thoughts to this conversation.

Through the work you do, you give of yourself, your talents to others – and that as far as I know in my experience, gives a person all the meaning they need to make this life an amazing experience for the self and others.

@ HANLIE – Thank you Hanlie for stopping by and adding in your thoughts.

Yes indeed! We give through learning – we give to ourselves and to others. I personally cannot imagine a life without learning. So enjoy it,I know I am :)

@ GILBERT – Hi Gilbert and thank you for stopping by to add in your thoughts.

You know, so often I read a person’s comments and I think “wow – did they ever say it well” – and you have.

I feel like you took this entire article and however many hundreds of words it is and summarized it so beautifully in one paragraph.

Yes, being familiar with Eckhart’s work I totally agree. There are a few teachers whose work has resonated with me very deeply and caused me to put together my own “data” and my own “truth” and he is one of them.

So again, what you said, I feel like I was trying to explain – thank you for the short version ;)

@ DAPHNE – Hello Daphne and a warmest welcome to you.

I am glad you enjoyed this post and found it meaningful, and it is really my pleasure to share things like this. I am in a really happy place in my life, and whatever I can share with others to help, inspire or awaken in any way is perhaps my purpose in all of this as I expand my being and consciousness.

@ HICHAM – Thank you so much Hicham – your comments and feedback are always very much appreciated.

Our purpose is indeed tied to meaning and together to passion. We can get through anything I believe, once we start looking at each of those areas from the data we gather about the world and expand our vision of life.

Excellent post! I completely agree with you that ultimate happiness equates with finding meaning in our lives. Only meaning can make us feel more complete.

I subscribe to Eckhart Tolle’s point of view that we have an inner and outer purpose. Our inner purpose is to expand our consciousness or ‘collect the data’ as you rightly said, perhaps so as that the universe can also expand its consciousness through us. The outer purpose is that thing that by doing it gets us in tune with our inner purpose – could be anything from fixing bikes to lecturing metaphysics around the globe.

I am learning… and through my learning, I give.

For me the meaning of life is using my strengths and gifts to help people. I have chosen the field of wellness to do that.