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My Life Purpose — The Skeptical Hippie

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Like I do, I packed the words with meaning and they need some elaboration. The gathering includes all the exposure and learning, through listening to people, traveling outside my bubble, consuming art, and giving due to my own experience. The synthesizing is making my own meaning, models, stories, trying to understand the richness and variety, to capture both the simplicity and the complexity. I'm still working on how the sharing plays out, but it partly means to express the prior two components in all the ways, compensating for the imperfectness of expression through doggedness and trial-and-error. Finally, I'm repetitive, but human experience aims to be as broadly construed as possible. My performing spiritual service as a profession feeds all parts of this purpose. When my coaching courses asked me what the impact of my life purpose would (hopefully) be, I answered: To help people belong to their being human and to see fully that they hold it in common. Any instant our minds are rec

In my coaching courses, as an exercise we wrote out life purpose statements. Here is mine: To gather, synthesize, and share human experience. Like I do, I packed the words with meaning and they need some elaboration. The gathering includes all the exposure and learning, through listening to people, traveling outside my bubble, consuming art, and giving due to my own experience. The synthesizing is making my own meaning, models, stories, trying to understand the richness and variety, to capture both the simplicity and the complexity. I'm still working on how the sharing plays out, but it partly

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