Finding Your Purpose

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

Purpose is not something you find. It is something you remember.

The question "what is my purpose?" assumes that purpose is hidden somewhere outside you — in a career, a calling, a role. But Rumi's understanding is different. He believed that every soul arrives with a particular quality of attention, a particular way of seeing, a particular gift that the world needs.

The work is not to discover this. The work is to stop covering it over.

What you were doing when you forgot about time — that is a clue. What you were doing when you felt most like yourself — that is a clue. What you would do even if no one was watching, even if no one was paying — that is a clue.

Purpose is not a destination. It is a direction.

Related Reflections

Themes that often travel alongside purpose.