Laura London on Substack

Your purpose isn’t what you are building, something you find, or a career path that you create.

YOU as a person, are your purpose.

We spend our whole lives trying to meet targets set by someone else. We lose sight of who we are, because we’re so busy chasing external things. In love that means people search for what’s outside of them (a romantic partner) and lose sight of what’s inside them (a potential for self-development and understanding).

A person’s identity is not to be found in behavior… but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going. —Anthony Giddens, sociologist

Knowing who you are is grounding; it gives you a sense of trajectory. But when we assign words and meanings to what we know we like and value and want, we create attachments. We then strive to keep things within the parameters of which we’ve already accepted. Out of that, we create failure. We create suffering over self. We begin to believe that a

An identity doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s a lived experience in homes, schools, neighborhoods, families, congregations and relationships. This is where purpose resides, in the intention of our identity. Once we discover our authentic self, how do we live from it?