May you make one hell of a profit and still get to heaven!

How can the universe provide you what you would love if you don’t have the trust
and courage to declare and ask for it? I wonder what the world would be like if
parents gave as much attention to helping their children clarify their purpose in life as
they do to getting them to brush their teeth. What if parents asked, “Johnny, what
would you love your destiny to be? What would you love to devote your life to?”
Every time you say, “I don’t know what my purpose is, I don’t have that capacity,”
you prolong the time you spend not doing what you love. Don’t empower those
personas, those masks covering your true and more enlightened nature. No one else
can give you your purpose, because you were born with it. You do know what your
mission is, so treat yourself like a monarch and ask, “What shall we do with the
kingdom today, your majesty?” and decide it in detail.
SPacE anD TImE
Goals and purpose are by no means the same thing. To own a business and make
$500,000 a year is a goal. To dedicate your life to the study and mastery of universal
laws is a lifelong purpose. Goals are the mortal objectives you set for yourself;
they’re stepping-stones you accomplish along the path of your immortal journey. A
purpose isn’t something you accomplish, it’s something you live, and there’s no end
to it. A goal may be within your life; a purpose is through or beyond it. Fulfilling goals
along the journey of your purpose will encourage you, and an inspiring purpose will
give meaning to your achievements. Senility and decay are not often an issue for
people with a profound purpose. A great purpose allows you to achieve great goals.
You live and work as if you were immortal, and that momentum maintains your
vitality right through to the end.
The magnitude of the space and time horizons within your innermost dominant
thoughts determines the level of conscious evolution you’ve obtained. Inspired
beings have big dreams. They think in long time frames and draw power from their
visions. Short time frames have less power.
In a large and bustling city, you could run into an ambitious young person just
beginning her career, almost begging for money to survive, living hand-to-mouth and
day-to-day. If you ask her how it’s going, she’ll say, “It’s been a fine day,” or “It’s
been a rough day.”
If you speak to the same person one year later, she may now be living week-to-
week and say, “It’s been a fair week,” or “It’s been a challenging week.” If you talk to
this person a year later, “It’s been a great month” may be her reply, and then two
years later, “It’s been a fabulous year.”
Five years later this same person could say, “I’ve had a couple of blessed years, and
in the next five years I’m projecting real growth.” By ten years, this person could say,
“I’m moving into a brand-new direction over the next 10 to 20 years, and I’m planning
THE POWER
OF PURPOSE