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

Observe how houses and skyscrapers are built from the ground up, a little at a time. Consider how much energy and planning it takes. What does this say about how to accomplish anything in life?

Those of us who like to skip steps can learn to rest in the present moment. Those of us who tend to take shortcuts to get where we’re going can rest easy, take a deep breath, and remember, in the well-known words of Ram Dass, to “be here now.” Those of us who get confused or impatient, who think a lot about future plans, can begin to recognize that

Consider the energy required to change an accustomed pattern. Could failure to break old patterns result from underestimating the force and the time required to shift to a new one?

The universal Spirit doesn’t judge us; judgments are human inventions, a means to compare, contrast, and control as we judge ourselves against artificial, and often idealistic, standards of perfection, morality, or truth. As youth fades and time brings changes, we may change many of our present opinions. So let us refrain from setting ourselves up

We also need to trust the intuitive messages from our subconscious, which may choose experiences or attract people into our life with results that we don’t consciously want but may need for our highest good and learning.

saw what was happening! So I put on those damned running shoes and said to myself, ‘I’ll walk those two miles because I made a promise to myself. But I’m ending up right here, at this cake!’ “I walked my two miles — maybe two and a half miles. And when I got back, I picked up the cake and was about to toss it in the garbage when I shook my

Marianne shrugged. “Patterns are often stronger than resolutions,

This corollary to the Law of Balance states that we receive what we give.

new ways, changing and restructuring our life and our behavior. Yet an innate resistance limits this possibility; this resistance is based on our most fundamental physical and psychological structures, connected to the larger universe and to the ways we learn and adapt to our environment when young. Our tendency to form

universe reminds us that whatever we feel we most need is what we most need to give. One special application of the Law of Balance applies