Why are you here?

Why are you here?

God created you and He loves you. You are His child. You are
here to learn to love Him, yourself and others. This is really
simple. It does not need to be cloaked in complex theology or
secrecy, and it does not need to be interpreted for you.

Love is the answer to life, and resisting this revelation does not
change it. If you think this is somehow ridiculous, trivial, or
irrelevant, you are mistaken!

God gave us freewill, so we are able to choose whether to grow
the love within us. However, creation is set up to provide us
feedback as to how loving we are. This feedback mechanism is
called karma.

You chose to experience your current temporary physical
incarnation because the physical world teaches and tests you. It
satisfies your spiritual desire to grow closer to God, and it
enables you, a soul, to develop you ability to love
unconditionally faster than you are able to do in the spiritual
dimensions.

It takes great courage to agree to experience a physical
incarnation, and you deserve a lot of credit for being here.

If you knew for sure that you are immortal, you would probably

not be genuinely motivated to grow your soul or fully experience

the physical world. Therefore, your true nature is temporarily

“veiled” from you while you exist in the physical world. This veil

is sometimes referred to as the “veil of forgetfulness”. It is

more transparent for some than for others.

The ultimate kind of love is called “unconditional” love. It is
given without the expectation of receiving love or other
benefits in return.

God gave us the command to behave at all times in a loving
manner. This rule is called the Golden Rule. It is very simple,
and can be stated as "Treat others the way that you would like
to be treated", or "Love thy neighbor". The Golden Rule is what
you need to understand and practice.

At its simplest level, learning to love unconditionally in the
context of the Golden Rule is about the hundreds of choices we
make during our daily lives. Are these choices loving or
unloving? Each time we make a choice about what we are going
to think, feel or do, we are getting closer to God, or further
away from Him.

Our soul growth is measured by the extent by which we can love
unconditionally. In the physical world, our level of soul growth is
evidenced by our character.

We generally maintain throughout eternity the level of soul (or
spiritual) growth we have attained. Our character does not
regress even though our memory of past incarnations is veiled
during this current physical incarnation.

A temporary incarnation in the physical dimensions provides an
opportunity to settle any karmic debt you may have incurred
during past lives.

Spiritual evolution is not the same as biological evolution.
Human beings may look the same and live together at the same
time in the physical dimensions, but this physical similarity or
the fact that they have incarnated together is not at all related
to their state of spiritual development. The person sitting next
to you may be a soul who is thousands of times more loving than
you, but there is no quick and easy way to determine this. Do
not waste your time judging other souls. Concern yourself with
your own growth first and foremost. While this sounds selfish,
as you grow you will begin to understand how closely your
personal growth is linked to the well being of other souls.

If you measure the success of your life by any criteria other than
soul growth, you are wasting your time in this incarnation.

There are three basic types of soul currently experiencing
reincarnation on Earth. There are souls who have decided that
they will try to serve others (“selfless”); there are souls who
have decided to serve only themselves by putting their own self
interest above others (“selfish”); and there are souls who do not
fit either role clearly, but who are easily manipulated into
serving their own self interest.

Your Mission or Purpose

Your agreement to incarnate in the physical dimensions included
specific goals. These goals are veiled from you. It is up to you to
discover your goals. Your goals are directly associated with
growing the love within yourself and/or others.

Discovering your mission requires time and reflection.

To identify your mission, look inwardly at yourself and try to
identify your passion and what drives you, without being
constrained by cultural norms, roles and social pressure. Search
your heart? Your mission may not involve grand gestures with
huge consequence for society. It might be a simple as
overcoming the challenges of physical life.

Your mission includes addressing personal weaknesses such as
selfishness, misdirected ego, or the love of material things.

Whenever you have a mission, purpose or goal in mind,
remember that how you achieve it just as important as what you
achieve. Another way of saying this is that whatever you do
should be done with love.

Your mission is very likely to also involve helping other souls to
grow. Ask yourself what you care deeply about? Is this
associated in some way with helping other souls to grow in love?
Helping others may be a simple as setting an example for others,
or bringing up children.

Your life and circumstances are challenges for you to overcome
and change if they are not leading you to love.

Be careful that you do not allow others to set your mission or
purpose for you. If you blindly follow others, you will lose your
freewill and subvert your intuition.

Whatever the specific elements of your mission are, your goal is
to learn to forgive, release fear, and practice love.

This physical incarnation can be easy and fun, but for this to be
so, you are going to need to learn how to overcome fear and live
your life from a sense of love, passion and joy. Any difficulties
you experience are of your own creation. They can be turned
into positive learning experiences if you so choose.

The Earth is the ultimate
experience for a soul because it
can evolve faster here than
anywhere else. The lessons we
need to learn are difficult to
learn without having a physical
body.
David Oakford

The Earth is the ideal place for
spiritual growth because of the
influence of our physical body.
Opportunities to experience a
full range of love is ideally
available on Earth. Love which
has been misused or misdirected,
is also best corrected on Earth.
Nora Spurgin

Love is the only sane and
satisfactory answer to the
problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

The roots of education are
bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

A central aspect of our eternal
existence is continued spiritual
growth through love and service.
We can spend what seems like an
eternity before incarnating in
the flesh. During that period in
the spirit world, soul growth can
be attained there as well.
Nora Spurgin

We came to this physical realm
to live the human experience and
help each other rise to the higher
level of love.
Sherry Gideon

Each one of us came to earth on a
personal mission to be loved or to
give love. We are to learn the
value and price of love. Other
parts of our mission include
learning patience, humility,
self-discipline, and other virtues.
These attributes are parts of
love.
Betty Eadie

Our own desire to grow and learn
leads us to be born in the
physical realm.
Amber Wells

Day by day we are building for
eternity, every gentle word,
every generous thought, every
unselfish deed will become a
pillar of eternal beauty in the
life to come.
Rebecca Springer

You've got to continue to grow,
or you're just like last night's
cornbread--stale and dry.
Loretta Lynn

If a soul has a spiritual ideal and
desires to know if it actually
possesses that ideal, the soul can
come to Earth to be tested after
applying this ideal in a physical
life. The Earth is a good school
for overcoming certain
weaknesses in ways that only a
body of flesh can. We apply
ourselves here on Earth to see if
those weaknesses are truly
overcome. Here we can learn for
sure whether we have really
changed.
Edgar Cayce

The way to measure your life is
by your growth -- not success or
failure, pleasure or pain. The
rich man might be very
successful by worldly standards,
but if he has attained no growth,
his life has not amounted to
much. The individual who has
had a terrible life by worldly
standards may have attained
incredible soul growth, so it is he
who is to be seen as an example.
Dick Sutphen

The soul is placed in the body
like a rough diamond, and must
be polished, or the lustre of it
will never appear.
Daniel Defoe

Work out your own salvation. Do
not depend on others.
Buddha

We cannot all do great things,
but we can do small things with
great love.
Mother Teresa

Be patient with all that is
unresolved in your heart. And try
to love the questions themselves.
Do not seek for the answers that
cannot be given. For you
wouldn't be able to live with
them. And the point is to live
everything, live the questions
now, and perhaps without
knowing it, you will live along
some day into the answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke (poet)

At the center of your being you
have the answer; You know who
you are and you know what you
want.
Lao-tzu

To the world, you might be one
person... but to one person, you
just might be the world.
Author Unknown

Any time that is not spent on
love is wasted.
Tasso

Each soul enters with a mission.
We all have a mission to perform.
Edgar Cayce

When you were born, you cried,
and the world rejoiced. Live your
life in such a manner that when
you die, the world cries and you
rejoice.
Indian proverb

Life is a quarry, out of which we
are to mold and chisel and
complete a character.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spiritual growth requires the
acknowledgment of one's need to
grow.
M. Scott Peck

Even if you are on the right
track, you will get run over if
you just sit there.
Will Rogers

I am only one; but still I am one. I
cannot do everything, but still I
can do something. I will not
refuse to do the something I can
do.
Helen Keller

The little unremembered acts of
kindness and love are the best
parts of a person's life.
William Wordsworth

If you think you're too small to
have an impact, try going to bed
with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Koddick

Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful committed citizens
can change the world: Indeed it's
the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Man's main task in life is to give
birth to himself, to become what
he potentially is. The most
important product of his effort is
his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Twenty years from now you will
be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than by the
ones you did. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
Mark Twain

Your time is limited, so don't
waste it living someone else's
life...Don't let the noise of
other's opinions drown out your
own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to
follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know
what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs

Each human creature has
individual endowment, power
and responsibility in the creative
plan of God.
Abdu'l-Baha

If we develop along the lines of
unselfish love while in this world,
we make it better for us when we
die. It's what we are that counts!
Arthur Yensen

Day by day we are building for
eternity. Every gentle word,
every generous thought, every
unselfish deed will become a
pillar of eternal beauty in the
life to come.
Rebecca Springer

It is better to live your own
destiny imperfectly than to live
an imitation of somebody else's
life with perfection.
Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

How wonderful it is that nobody
need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the
world.
Anne Frank

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on
saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I
may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary,
if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity
to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do
something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace
of God, I will.
Edward Everett Hale

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and
we will never be happy if we live someone else’s idea of life.
James Van Praagh

Every man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one
direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently
inviting him thither to endless exertion.
He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side
but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps
serenely over God's depths into an infinite sea.
This talent and this call depend on his organization, or the mode in
which a general soul incarnates in him. He inclines to do something
which is easy to him, and good when it is done, but which no other
man can do. He has no rival.
For the more truly he consults his own powers, the more difference
will his work exhibit from the work of any other. When he is true
and faithful, his ambition is exactly proportional to his powers. By
doing his work he makes the need felt which only he can supply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is
put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy
will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and unbelievable
possibilities will open up for you. The synchronicities that will begin
appearing in your life will become a source of delight and
amazement.
Joan Borysenko

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those
you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never
even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at
every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers

The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to
matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you
lived at all.
Arthur H. Prince

Everything on the earth has purpose, every disease an herb to cure
it, and every person a mission.
Christine Quintasket

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever
need.
Jerry Gillies

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed
to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and
courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If we are afraid to be different, how can we make a difference?
Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind
who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your
profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and
such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you
will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life
braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his
full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett

If we develop along the lines of unselfish love while in this world, we
make it better for us when we die. It's what we are that counts!
Arthur Yensen

35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest
commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments.”
Matthew 22

You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high. You are
here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to
make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn,
evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of
prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with
love and light.
Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power