Zero to 1: You Don't Have Purpose, You Are Purpose Expressed
The Embodiment—Living as Purpose
Michelangelo was once asked how he created David from a block of marble.
“I didn’t create David,” he replied. “David was always there in the marble. I just removed everything that wasn’t David.”
For years, the master worked with hammer and chisel, not to add something to the stone, but to reveal what was already present.
Each strike wasn’t creating—it was uncovering.
Each fragment that fell away brought forth more of what was always there, waiting to be expressed.
But here’s what most people miss about this story: Michelangelo didn’t just reveal David; he revealed himself. The sculpture became the sculptor’s self-portrait—not of his face, but of his consciousness made visible in stone.
The artist and the artwork were never separate.
They never are.
7 Insights on Living as Purpose
I.
When you recognize your inherent fullness, something profound shifts: You stop looking for purpose “out there.”
Your life becomes the expression of what you are, not the pursuit of what you lack.
You don’t HAVE a purpose—you ARE purpose expressing itself.
Like a wave doesn’t have the ocean, it IS the ocean in that particular form, temporarily rising to express something the ocean needs to express.
II.
In Kashmir Shaivism, they call this the dance of Shiva and Shakti. Shiva is pure consciousness—eternal, unchanging, the witness. Shakti is that same consciousness in dynamic expression—creating, destroying, dancing.
You are both.
You are the eternal awareness (Shiva) AND its creative manifestation (Shakti). Not one or the other. Both, simultaneously.
III.
This is what Jesus meant when he said, “I and the Father are one.”
Not “I am trying to become one with the Father.”
Not “I am seeking the Father.”
But “I and the Father ARE one.”
Individual consciousness and universal consciousness were never separate. The wave was always the ocean.
IV.
This changes everything about how you understand purpose.
Purpose isn’t a mission you need to discover.
Purpose isn’t a role you need to fulfill.
Purpose isn’t a contribution you need to make.
Purpose is consciousness expressing itself through your unique form, in this unique moment, in a way that could never happen through any other form.
Your very existence IS the purpose.
V.
When this clicks, life stops being a problem to solve and becomes art you’re creating.
Actually, that’s still not quite right.
Life stops being art you’re creating and becomes art that’s creating itself through you.
You’re the brush, the paint, the canvas, the artist, and the one witnessing the whole process. All at once.
VI.
How do you know when you’re living this truth?
There’s a test: Would you gladly relive your exact life—every moment, every joy, every heartbreak, every triumph, every loss—again and again for eternity?
Not because it was perfect.
Not because it was easy.
But because you FELL IN LOVE WITH IT COMPLETELY.
VII.
This is embodiment—not as achievement but as love and union.
When the sculptor becomes one with the marble, and the singer disappears into the song, effort transforms into effortlessness.
Work becomes play.
You become like a child absorbed in creation, needing no justification, no goal, and no endpoint.
5 Quotes
I.
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”
Meister Eckhart
II.
“What you are looking for is what is looking.”
St. Francis of Assisi
III.
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi
IV.
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself.”
Eckhart Tolle
V.
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
William Blake
Questions
If consciousness itself is living through you, expressing something that can only be expressed through your unique form, what is it that wants to come through you that could come through no one else?
If you are the answer to one of life’s questions, what are you the answer to?