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Eric Spirko's avatar

I always find it interesting, and sometimes frustrating, that we use the same word—dream—for what our waking ego projects as our hopes and wishes as well as our nightly dive into the unconscious. It's frustrating because what our waking egoic perspective wants can be vastly misaligned from what the deeper aspects of our being know that we really need. I think you’re on to something here that this misalignment can be a big source of the lack of purpose so many feel today.

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Jannat Z's avatar

I’ve been thinking about a lot about purpose too, as i'm exploring and have a desire to expand my work in the world. And being with the question of what is mine to do (from Sahajayana).

I have been thinking about how it’s fluid and changes moment to moment, like how my purpose is to just be present with whatever I’m doing or whatever I’m with in the moment (Thich Nhat Hanh nonveys this beautifully in his books), and how we can have many purposes in life

And how sometimes this need for purpose, maybe like a shadow side, is tied to the capitalist system we live in that allows us to have only one job/ career and tied to this need for certainty, power, and control.

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