manifest your purpose

You have a song in your heart to be sung, and you have a dance to be danced, but the dance is invisible, and the song – even you have not heard it yet. It is deep down hidden in the innermost core of your being; it has to be brought to the surface, it has to be expressed.

– Osho, a Sufi mystic

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

– Henry David Thoreau

Don’t die with your music still in you.

– Wayne Dyer

You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

– Matthew 7:7

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

– Agnes Whistling Elk, a Shaman

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

– John 8:32

[We have forgotten] “…the authentic identity of our Spiritual Essences…. When we forget our spiritual identities, we also forget why we are here in physical bodies. When we forget why we are here on the earth, we also forget our original purpose for becoming human. Before we were born into this world, we all promised ourselves that we would remember our divine identities and would accomplish certain tasks or missions while we experienced human life…. Every time we encounter another aspect of our Spiritual Essence... we remember why we are here and our original purpose within the divine plan.”

– Jamie Sams, a Native American teacher

Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered: it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it…. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

– Osho, a Sufi mystic

Have you ever wondered what you are doing on this earth, why you are alive, and what meaning there is to the pain that we all experience? … When we are born, the dream begins. Like the cloud hiding the mountaintop, the dream obscures our true vision. We must gather a strong wind to blow away the clouds. Then we can see, truly see, the whole of our being – the silent mountain that we are. That is what life is all about: waking up from the dream. We have come here to become enlightened, yet it is the one thing we are most afraid of.

– Agnes Whistling Elk and Lynn Andrews, Shamans

Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

– Don Miguel Ruiz, a Toltec Nagual

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

– Marianne Williamson, a spiritual teacher of A Course in Miracles

The Opening of Eyes

That day I saw beneath dark clouds
The passing light over the water
And I heard the voice of the world speak out.
I knew then, as I had before
Life is no passing memory of what has been
Nor the remaining pages in a great book
Waiting to be read.

It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the vision of far off things
Seen for the silence they hold.
It is the heart after years
Of secret conversing
Speaking out loud in the clear air.


It is Moses in the desert
Fallen to his knees before the lit bush.
It is the man throwing away his shoes
As if to enter heaven
And finding himself astonished,
Opened at last,
Fallen in love with solid ground.

– David Whyte, poet and modern day mystic