Purpose in life

QUESTION: Masters, I really only have one pressing question: what is my purpose in life? I fixate on this question constantly and am afraid, without the knowledge of the answer, I am walking the wrong path.

ANSWER: We get this same question in some variation constantly. Everyone feels that there must be one and only one purpose for their incarnating. When you were planning for a trip to Earth, you met with your council of advisors and discussed what lessons you wanted to learn. “Your purpose” is your reason for incarnating. This purpose is almost never a single thing you endeavor to experience but a series of things.

Once you enter into your human body you begin on your predetermined path, starting from the circumstances you had yourself born into, such as your birth family, whether the country was at peace or war, the family’s monetary condition, your sex and race. You further had preplanned contracts made with other souls to allow you to see different sides of living, which will appear at the appropriate time in your life.

But one thing is for certain: the one purpose you always incarnate with is to find what it is that you wanted to accomplish. If we told you the specifics of each lesson you had decided to do, you would be missing half the process. When you were in school, if the teacher just told you the answers to the questions without asking the questions, you would learn nothing. For us to tell you what purpose you had in mind would be the same. In other words, discovering “your purpose” is your purpose.