There’s a moment in every great performance when something shifts. The dancer stops dancing and disappears into the dance.
What remains is pure expression. There’s no one there anymore—no ego seeking applause, no self needing validation, no performer chasing glory.
This is when the dancer and the dance become one.
And when we witness this, a performance where the performer has disappeared into the art, it elevates all of us.
We recognize in them what’s possible in ourselves: the unity of being and doing, the overflow of love made visible.
10 Insights on Finding Purpose
I.
The reason external purpose felt hollow wasn’t because you chose the wrong goals.
It’s because you were operating from a false premise that by HAVING we can attain become fulfilled.
II.
At the core of Seeking fulfillment is the belief that ”I am not enough” and that I will be enough when I achieve, attain, and have.
This is the invisible engine driving the endless pursuit of more, better, and different. But every attempt only confirms ‘I am not enough’ without it.
III.
When you stop searching outside and deeply reflect on your situation, you can realize that you were never incomplete.
Your incompleteness was just a belief; you simply made the whole thing up. And you’ve been trying to fill a hole that exists only in your imagination.
IV.
When you recognize that you are fully complete right now, that you lack nothing, that you are enough, your relationship with the world begins to change.
You stop operating from deficiency and start operating from fullness.
V.
The result is the shift from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation.
Extrinsic: “I do this to get validation, security, and proof of worth.”
Intrinsic: “I do this because I love it, for its own sake”
VI.
A singer sings.
A dancer dances.
An artist creates.
They’re not trying to become worthy; they’re expressing what they are.
VII.
When you give from emptiness, it’s obligation, duty, or an attempt to feel worthy.
When you give from fullness, it’s sharing your natural overflow.
You’re not sacrificing anything because you are not giving others what you HAVE but giving them WHO YOU ARE.
VIII.
The paradox: Seeking fulfillment keeps you empty because it is an affirmation that you lack.
You don’t “find” purpose and then feel complete.
You recognize completeness, and purpose naturally flows from that recognition.
IX.
When you stop seeking purpose externally and recognize fullness internally, you become purpose itself.
Your life becomes the expression of what you are, not the pursuit of what you lack.
X.
Like the bird singing her tune, your purpose is to do what you really love and share WHO you are with the world.
5 Quotes
I.
“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
Alan Watts
II.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.”
Howard Thurman
III.
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
IV.
“God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk.””
Meister Eckhart
1 Question
What makes you come alive?