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Knowing your spiritual purpose is a motivating and exciting force in your life. You will have many purposes in life, and although you may be fulfilled in your day-to-day life, you will not look or think of it as a life’s purpose. However, you could say meaning and purpose motivate each choice, each experience and each role you have played teaches you lessons about yourself, your relationship, people, organizations and how life works.
Growth and learning takes place from each experience you have, it moves you forward to a greater awareness, and drives your purpose in life. You may choose to look broader at the purpose of life or you may see it as a spiritual reason for your life.
You may be a person that knows your destiny in a clear fashion or you may be a person who is not sure of your destiny. You may be a person that knows their mission in life or you may be a person that does not. You may be a person that knows their spiritual path or you may be a person that simply allows life to direct you without giving it much thought. You may be a person that does not have to define what your spiritual path is or you may be a person that does not care. Do you see your life as a theme or a spiritual purpose?
   
If you want to know your spiritual path or move on, there is a spiritual life purpose inventory at the end of this article to help you with this process. If you are already on your spiritual path, you may like to use the information for clarity and to celebrate how you are already fulfilling your spiritual purpose.
You may not have recognized that your spiritual self has called you to express your life in a certain direction. Without defining it as a spiritual path, you may have had a lot of inner drive to accomplish certain goals or to develop and use certain talents many times as an avocation. If you were to turn around and review your life, you might see some important patterns that point in the direction of seeing purpose. Maybe, you had a strong desire to build or refinish furniture, to know the names of local trees or birds, to write a story or to start your own business. The desire to develop and enjoy your interests and talents are seen as actualizing a spiritual purpose. If it benefits others that is great, however, the fact is, it will bring more joy, peace and love into your life.
So how do you reach deeper to find a spiritual purpose and meaning that will motivate, stimulate and enrich your life at any age? Let us look at two processes. There is yin, the gentle, passive, or flowing approach that allows your spiritual path to find you. Then there is the directive, active, or seeking approach to finding your spiritual path. Many times, you would have experienced a combination of both processes.
I for example take more of the first approach in discovering my spiritual purpose. I analyzed the meaning of my life and dug deep to find my spiritual journey. I was received the information I needed, however, it was not until later in life that the information made sense to me and it was only then, that I felt passion to actualize it. Timing is so important in living your life and fulfilling your mission. You can get answers when you ask, however, the time to actualize them depends on many things, your maturity level, your ability to assimilate and integrate your experiences and your degree of understanding the language of the soul, which is intuition and inner knowing.
Because I was so determined and because I wanted to explore my self and inner healing, I found out a general overview of my life purpose in my late forties. The theme of my life I discovered was so simple that I almost did not get it. How did I find out? Part of my self-discovery process was to use what I had by helping others understand who they were, and helping them to find what they wanted out of life. I took diplomas in counseling, psychotherapy, relaxation therapy, crystal healing and herbalism. This allowed me to teach mediation and relaxation classes. In the workshop for meditation my clients and I would ask many questions, such as why were we given these gifts, and what is my spiritual journey?