Your Journey Has Purpose

While reviewing one of my upcoming emails, I glanced at my newsletter logo. The winding yellow dotted line. The arrow. And I thought I wonder if you know what it means.

The meaning is simple. The path represents the meaning of life according to the Yogis.

They teach that life's purpose is evolution, growth, unfoldment. Not achieving grandiose things. Not accumulating possessions. Not even being happy. The goal is improvement. Following your unique path, one step at a time, doing your best right now, and learning the lessons life teaches you. And we all are different stages of spiritual evolution. Each with different lessons to learn.

Yogi Ramacharaka puts it eloquently:

"All this struggle, and pain, and life, and effort, really is directed toward the unfoldment of the soul that it may recognize its real self. This is what it all means. This is why we pursue first this thing and then that thing, thinking that we need them, only to find out that we need them not. The Yogi Philosophy teaches that the object of Life is that each person shall unfold and develop what is within them—that they shall grow into their full self, learning the lessons set before them in each stage of the journey."

And you’ll keep learning lesson after lesson until the day your body dies. And your path is not straightforward. That's why the line twists and loops. Life isn't linear. Life has ups and downs, setbacks and breakthroughs.

But you keep going. You learn each lesson and move to the next. You stumble into the next obstacle, extract its wisdom, then continue forward. You never stop learning. That is life's purpose.

And “no matter how adverse circumstances or conditions seem to be for you, they are exactly what you need in your life, and have for their only object your ultimate good."

Your path is yours alone. All you need to do is the best you know how with what you have. Be cheerful. Be kind. And allow others the same privilege.