
THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

woman named Mildred Norman once came to an important turning point while walking in the woods at night. “I felt a complete willingness,” she said, “without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I began to give what I could, instead of to get what I could...my life became more meaningful. I attained the great blessing of
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tends to overshadow the wisdom of our own heart. But as Albert Einstein said, “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
the only opinion that ultimately has value for us. Once we contact our feeling center, we can then listen to other people’s counsel or opinions without losing sight of our own intuition, the place where we determine what’s best for our own life and let others do the same.
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
For some of us with authority issues, it’s the god of authority; for others, it’s the god of comparison; for still others, it becomes
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
Whenever we cut corners for expediency, or whenever the ends seem to justify the means, we may not always reap obvious external consequences, but we create inner turbulence that we can’t escape no matter where we go. Others of us who tend toward tunnel
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
Acting with the highest integrity and expressing our authentic needs and feelings can change our personal and professional relationships for the better. Such integrity, honesty, and truthfulness — or the lack of it — form the trail we leave behind us, our personal mark in history.
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
Those of us with an unsure sense of identity innately need something to which we can anchor our identity the way a ship needs an anchor in harbor. Therefore, we tend to find a hobby, a teacher, a system, a method, or a set of beliefs and identify with our opinions with religious zeal or quiet fanaticism. We feel we are our opinions, and so we defen
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“If a wise, loving, compassionate, altruistic, all-knowing spirit within me were guiding me now, what would I do in this situation?” The law functions because such a spirit does work through us; we only have to contact it by calling on a part of ourselves, and then we know what to do — then we act in the name of, or as a servant of, the highest and
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e’re all here to live in alignment with spiritual laws, but the Law of Intuition is especially critical for those of us with issues of integrity and wisdom as a strong influence in our birth number. Those of us working 9 are here to connect with higher