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

THE LAW OF PERFECTION: High ideals can inspire us, but excellence is the most realistic goal. • THE LAW OF FLEXIBILITY: Staying flexible, we make the best use of changing circumstances. • THE LAW OF HONESTY: Honesty is founded on self-awareness of our emotional reality.

Pay attention to the many small steps in your life. 4. Break any present goal down into small steps; write them down and make a checklist. See the stepping-stones from where you are to where you want to be.

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

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

Positive expression manifests as inspiring, enthusiastic, constructive, uplifting communication, such as speaking, singing, acting, music, writing, or expressing through other arts.

Creative energy has a surging, dynamic quality; it exists to flow toward some purpose. This energy acts as a double-edged sword; if it isn’t used for constructive purposes, it gets discharged in destructive ways. If our creative energy gets blocked altogether, like water

“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

conditional giving has a hooklike energy that curtails higher qualities or repels the desired results. The secret of giving and receiving is that whatever we feel

What we expect tends to appear in our life. If we see ourselves as a lucky person, we sort for or notice incidents supporting this expectation. The same would apply to an expectation that we’re unlucky. To paraphrase Goethe, we could say that self-concept

Those of us who slip into lower levels of integrity often don’t realize we’re doing it. We lie to ourselves before we can lie to others. When we speak with forked tongues or mixed motives, we aren’t yet integrated. We have to achieve such integration in order to speak