The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1936
INDIVIDUAL PURPOSE
By J. H. H.
LIFE is like a great ocean unexperienced. Life is like a great garden in process of cultivation and growth.
Each individual is a world containing the possibilities of the universe. Each individual is a god possessing potentially every attribute and power of the Infinite.
Purpose is a golden thread binding the activities of a life into the sheaf of achievement. Man must give his life to his purpose and if necessary, give his life for his purpose.
The great purpose of life has never been fully understood on the earth plane. It has never been fully revealed to earth minds.
Life is eternal and a true purpose is eternal.
Comes to each individual the time and the opportunity for consciously recognizing, consciously selecting and consciously accepting his purpose in life. For a holy purpose is every man created. Never has the deep significance and importance of individual purpose been recognized and developed on earth. Never has the importance of recognizing and consciously, definitely, choosing one’s purpose been emphasized. Here and there has purpose been touched upon as important to the progress of the individual. Never has it been stressed as essential to true progress nor given its true place in the developing life of every individual.
To each individual life there is a purpose peculiarly its own giving that life incentive, harmony, dignity and success. Essential to true progress is the recognition and choice of one’s true purpose. Purpose is to life the eternal approximate what a profession is to earth life, a contributing, stabilizing, maintaining element.
Always bear in mind the continuity of life. Everything in every phase of life constitutes a part of the whole of life.
Life is eternal.
A life of progress is one of continuous purpose and action. Limited only by the mind is a man’s progress. To any aspiration
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