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And that’s one thing that I think we don’t pay enough attention to. You might have an “aha” moment or an insight about what your purpose is. Your job then is not to directly pursue the purpose right away—it’s to ask yourself, What conditions do I need to cultivate in my life to make that purpose really blossom—really flourish?
And then we can get kind of mad at ourselves because we’re not doing our purpose—when we didn’t take the time to set the conditions. And it can take a few years to set up the—well, it takes a lifetime, right? But certainly, it can take a few years to set up the conditions under which my purpose could be manifest.
Especially if your purpose is something that is going against society’s conditioning or your conditioning, you’ve got to have tons of things in your life that give nutrients to the new purpose in order to allow it to grow.
Some of the conditions that are really important for most people in terms of growing their purpose—it’s sort of like a garden. You know, you get a seed planted—either by yourself, by your family, by the universe—and then your job is to provide the soil and the nutrients and the sunshine and water and stakes in the ground to allow this seed to grow. Same thing in your own life.