Yang – Nice to hear what you’re up to. Maintaining balance is a big one for me, too. I nearly included that in the article but then I thought it came under the heading of spiritual growth, anyway.

Michael – Thank you! That is amazing and really well put. It resonates with me.

The “meaning” of life for me goes far deeper, beyond life purpose. Life purpose is just a means to a higher end.

Of course, such phrases are slippery at best, and words don’t work very well for these kinds of things, but at the core I feel that the meaning behind why we are here is for the Godhead to experience itself as fully as possible, in every aspect – dark and Light, joy and suffering, good and evil. When we are all fully ascended (if there is an end game, which is doubtful) these thousands and millions of lives will indeed have _no_ meaning in themselves but each will be one speck in a massive ball of unbearable glory…possibly to implode and create the next spiritual Big Bang.

Anyhow, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it

For me, as usual, learning to stay in balance and always going to the next level by maintaining new equilibrium in chaotic situations.

I’m doing some of the ones you mentioned too. To be specific, I’m:

- Finishing Actuarial Honours, which I’m enjoying now because I get two electives next semester! (which aren’t actuarial!)
- On day 20 roundabouts for P90X – I can do 14 pull ups in one go now – started in week 1 with 4 pull ups in one go.
- Now VP of Education for my Toastmasters club and need to do a speech from an advanced manual tommorow which I still need to prepare!
- Planning to start my tutoring business next year as planned and possibly even start a franchise for it.
- Next year study for a Masters of Education with a thesis component then do a PhD afterwards.
- Continue my personal and spiritual development in all the ways that I see would maximise my growth – including getting a farm set up so I have some spiritual permaculture going on consistent with Anastasia’s vision of creating a Space of Love.

And of course as always I will be following the themes in my life – freedom, power, learning, teaching and being open to that which is new.
My life purpose still needs to be clarified – but I’ll get there eventually!

“My purpose is to use insight, compassion, and the rapid embodiment of wisdom to enable all to experience meaningful states of inner peace, joy, and abundance.”

On one hand, it’s much more general than your specific examples. On the other hand, it’s so precise that I can easily ‘test’ to see if a current action or path is aligned with that purpose or not.

Right now, the biggest activity aligned with that is that I’m about to release my ‘Inscribe Your Life’ program with hundreds of partners, including bloggers, to hundreds of thousands of people. Possibly even millions.

The other major activity in alignment with that is I was asked to teach an Internet Marketing class at a local University, and I accepted. Last week was the first class and it was awesome.

Chris
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