Rediscover Your Purpose in the World After a Spiritual Awakening
How to Find Your Calling After an Existential Crisis
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What Is The Main Purpose of Human Life?
The quest for purpose often begins after your basic needs are covered, when food and shelter are no longer in question. When the thrill of relationships fades. When your job or business starts to feel like an empty loop.
That’s when the more profound questions rise:
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What would it mean to live truly?
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence. The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world - Eckhart Tolle
Your Profession or Career is Not Your Primary Purpose
Your life purpose is not your profession or career. Your main purpose on this earth is to awaken and realize your being. This potential is present as an inherent destiny to the whole of humanity. The career you're building is just a small part of life. It's our mind's way of trying to find meaning in our existence on Earth. But please know this: What actually gives life meaning is the willingness to live it as awareness.
You are the spiritual being expressing itself as a human being for a little while.
In this post, we will also explore how to rediscover your purpose in the world after spiritual awakening. At times after spiritual awakening, your old profession no longer resonates with your true self. Once you are awakened, the Universe uses you to express itself through you. Hence, you will be surprised by what the universe wants to pursue through you after awakening.
Inner Purpose is Your Main Purpose in Life
Your main purpose in life is to awaken and bring awareness to the world. To live life fully means you experience every aspect of life with full awareness and alertness.
As per spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, our life's purpose comprises inner purpose and outer purpose.
Your inner purpose is to be aware or bring awareness to whatever you do. It concerns Being. It does not concern what you do but what you are- that is to say, your state of awareness.
To be fully present, bring your attention to your breath and feel your inner body. Just breathe fully. Now you are aware and alert as your attention is fully withdrawn from your thoughts and five senses. Now you are connected with your inner purpose. You are awakened in this moment and fulfilling your life purpose.
When you connect with your inner purpose,
The outer circumstances change for the better.
You will first realize what no longer resonates, and then you’ll understand what truly fulfills you.
Instead of resisting challenging events, you will accept and resolve them without mental torture.
Finally, you will radiate love and respect for all human beings.
Discover Your Outer Purpose (Your Mission in the World)
Your outer purpose is secondary, and it concerns doing. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies significantly from person to person. In that way, your worldly profession is your outer purpose.
Your outer purpose is the profession or business you choose to survive and thrive in the world. The outer purposes are often the purposes you inherited or learned from your parents and childhood experiences.
Your outer purpose journey starts from a lesser outer purpose towards a deeper outer purpose. It can change over time and is unique for every person. You have to pass through several lesser outer purposes to reach your deeper outer purpose.
What Are The Signs That Indicates That the Universe Is Calling You to Choose a Deeper Outer Purpose?
You may suddenly lose interest in the profession or mission that once fueled you. Even if it brought you wealth and success, after awakening, you sense it is no longer the right vessel for expressing your newly realized consciousness in the world.
Your mind resists, creating a tug-of-war between your old path and the new calling. You swing back and forth like a pendulum, torn between what was and what is emerging.
No matter how hard you try to return, the door to your old profession keeps closing. Sometimes, if you persist in forcing it open, life intervenes through illness, accident, or other unexpected events to redirect you. This is the "Fierce Grace" guiding you toward the path meant for you now.
As your awakening deepens, clarity arrives—confusion lifts. The burden falls away. You feel inspired to embrace the new mission not for status or gain but out of pure love for the work and the service it brings to your family, your community, and the world.
In this new phase of life, your "Why" burns brighter than the "What," "How," or "Whom."
Some people always delay sharing their gifts with the world, thinking that they need to be perfect. Yes, you need to have experience and expertise in what you want to share with the world, but you don't need to be perfect and bulletproof.
Create or teach what you most need to learn — for creating and teaching are the highest forms of learning. Understand that what you have loved, others will love, and through your creation, you will show them exactly how!
How to Choose Your Deeper Outer Purpose
Deeper Outer Purpose
Visualize a circle with your Deeper Outer Purpose at its center. Surrounding it are concentric outer circles representing your Lesser Outer Purposes. As you move through different short-term careers over the years, these outer circles gradually dissolve, bringing you closer and closer to your Deeper Outer Purpose. In this process, you are also slowly realizing your True Self.
Your life is a journey from Lesser Outer Purpose toward Deeper Outer Purpose. The more connected you are to your inner purpose — your state of being and awareness — the clearer your deeper outer purpose becomes.
Sometimes, this deeper purpose reveals itself when your attachment to wealth, possessions, profession, or a hedonistic lifestyle breaks. Such shifts often come through sudden tragedies or misfortunes — losing your wealth, your business, someone you loved deeply, or a meaningful relationship.
In other cases, spiritual practices like meditation help people connect to their being, leading them to see their current profession or business as unfulfilling. They intuitively recognize it is no longer the right path at this stage of life, and feel drawn away from it — even if it has provided ample wealth.
You have two choices: leave your lesser outer purpose behind to embrace your deeper one, or reshape your old profession so that it aligns with your inner purpose and serves the world more meaningfully. In the second choice, you need to change “how” you do what you do.
Always remember, how you do what you do — acting from inner purpose — is far more important than what you do.
Are you a Peacekeeper or a Conscious Creator?
After a spiritual awakening, the outward purpose does not express itself with equal intensity in all awakened beings. Some feel a strong urge to create and share their outer purpose. Others abide quietly in their inner being, living a seemingly more passive and uneventful life.
These inward beings have little desire to intervene in or transform the world. They are the "Peacekeepers" of the planet, maintaining its energetic balance through their inner stillness. Without peacekeepers, the world would be overwhelmed by egoic dysfunction. They are the guardians of being, bringing awareness into everything they do.
On the other hand, "Conscious Creators" feel a conscious drive to build, create, engage, and transform the world for the better. Their primary intention after awakening is to serve the world selflessly. In their outward mission, they embody the nurturing energy of the mother of the world.
They understand deeply that fulfilling their mission requires an unwavering commitment to selfless service. They recognize the importance of acting from a place of inner fulfillment rather than from a desire to become something or someone.
The life of a conscious creator is an expression of the bliss already present within them, not a pursuit of it. They channel their inner fulfillment into their work instead of chasing it.
Their desires do not disappear; instead, they transform into conscious intentions aimed at the well-being of others. What was once unconscious fuel for personal identity becomes a deliberate instrument for the healing and upliftment of the entire world.
Three Spiritual Principles That Can Transform Your Life!
Three spiritual principles indicate that you are on the right path toward choosing your Deeper Outer Purpose. They are:
1. Surrender to Being
You surrender to your true self — that which is God itself. Your prayer becomes, “Oh God, make me your own. Do as you will. Use me for your purpose.” In this surrender, you are no longer the doer; God acts through you. The universe then works through you to manifest its purpose.
This non-doership is the highest spiritual truth and frees you from all karma. God is no-thing and does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone. Meanwhile, ordinary people keep doing things, leaving many more undone.
2. Enjoy Without Worrying About Results
If you’re always focused on the result, the present becomes just a means to an end, rooted in egoic consciousness that worries about the future and regrets the past. Acting in the moment by constantly attaching yourself to the result and being lost in the future is the unenlightened way of living and breeds suffering, regardless of the outcome.
You must realign from egoic consciousness to being consciousness. The primary purpose of your life is the action you are doing right now. Being fully present and bringing awareness to everything you do allows you to enjoy the process without attachment to results. You then offer all outcomes and fruits of your labor to God.
3. Serve the World Selflessly
Serve the world selflessly and unconditionally from being, not from ego. When you serve others, do not see them as less privileged or less knowledgeable. Remember, by helping others, you are ultimately helping yourself. This is why Mother Teresa saw Christ in the poor and helpless.
The unchanging core of your life purpose is to serve humanity meaningfully through your deep work.
By connecting with your inner purpose, you will recognize your true self, attain self-realization, and realize your deeper outer purpose. Through this deep work, you will serve the world selflessly and unconditionally.
How to Connect with Inner Purpose & Manifest Outer Purpose
Let’s extend this analogy to the lamp. Imagine you are the lamp, shining light into the world through your deep work. The light will flicker if the lamp’s wire is not connected to the electric current—your inner purpose.
Similarly, when you are not fully aligned with your inner purpose, you tend to choose a lesser outer purpose, which leads to great suffering. But once the lamp’s wire is firmly connected to the electric current—your inner purpose—the light shines continuously and brightly.
By firmly connecting yourself to your inner purpose, you will naturally choose your Deeper Outer Purpose and illuminate the world with your unique creation.
So, remember to always connect with your inner purpose and serve the world unconditionally through your Deeper Outer Purpose. That, my friend, is your true life purpose.
Your main purpose in life is to awaken to the fullness of your Being.
As Jesus taught, “When you realize the Kingdom of Heaven within you, everything is added to you.”
How to Rediscover Purpose and Motivation After a Spiritual Awakening
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