Here we find ourselves, experiencing life in this vast universe, seemingly separate, ego-centric individuals with the ability to desire and achieve things. We have a few basic concepts in our collective consciousness regarding our purpose:

Some say we are born in order to learn certain lessons and to grow.

Others say that life is a test - if we pass this test, we gain entry into heaven, and if we fail, we suffer eternal damnation in hell.

Some say we are born in order to purge ourselves of karma (the effect of our past actions in previous lives), and after many lifetimes, when we eventually do so, we become liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

Another theory is that life simply has no purpose, and that it is merely the result of some accidental process taking place in the universe.

When we start to analyze these theories and beliefs, we see that some of them are limited in their description, which is to say they are true, but only to an extent, and some simply do not stand the test of reason. They are erroneous ideas or mere myths that have crept into our current culture, into our minds, and thus into our collective experience. Beliefs color experience. And our belief systems can be accurate mental constructs of the way things are, or they can be quite inaccurate or mistaken. Erroneous beliefs can imprison us (as some of the above ideas do), while more enlightened beliefs can leave us in a more liberated space.

I'd like you to consider the possibility that your purpose for taking human birth is to experience qualities and aspects of who you are in essence, and to re-create yourself continually according to your highest ideas by experiencing, expressing, deciding and re-creating who you are, and who we are always becoming. As an extension of source energy you also take thought itself to new levels through your desires and choices. These experiences serve Ultimate Reality, the Divine Essence. And so you are continually fulfilling your purpose for being born, irrespective of what you are doing.

On the one hand is life's integral and intrinsic purpose which is guiding the process forward. On the other, there are your beliefs about your purpose. These two can be closely aligned (and you will experience expansive freedom and power when they are). Yet even when they are not aligned, your beliefs always serve the greater purpose of life. So even if you say your purpose is to gain entry into heaven, for example, or to climb Mount Everest quicker than anyone else, or even to chase maximum enjoyment, it is fulfilling life's purpose because in and through these beliefs, you are becoming, experiencing, expressing, and creating what you are, and what you are continually becoming.

Your own chosen purpose (and in other words your intention or desire) may not right now be fulfilled, but your purpose for existing is always being fulfilled, in each moment of life.

So there is nothing more you have to do or be in order to be whole or complete. You are already so. And there is nothing that is required of you, other than that which you choose to require of yourself.

There are things you can choose to do, intend to do, desire to do, and certainly there are things you can do which would improve your experience, your life, and maybe improve this world, but do not confuse this with a requirement - that you have to do something in order to fulfill some purpose which is imposed upon your life. To be really simple about it, your purpose is to experience and create. Didn't you achieve a whole lot of that already today?

So I'm inviting you to think again about this question of purpose, and consider the possibility that you are already free, complete and whole, and that the purpose for which life and the universe was created is always being fulfilled. You are fulfilling this by being and experiencing. This will bring you freedom again. It is like lifting a huge weight off your shoulders. And in truth you are always at choice, and essentially free, except for your belief to the contrary. The only limitations you have are those that you choose to impose on yourself. Yet it is an inner knowing and choice to make, and when you choose this, you can free yourself, and be your Self again.