THE HEART OF LOVE

Why are you here on Earth? Do you know? In answering this question, we are each placed on a journey of great discovery – a journey of the soul.

Consider that DaVinci was drawing pictures of a helicopter hundreds of years before one was actually made. He was a master of living in the realm of infinite possibilities.

Dr. Lawrence Doyle, a former NASA physicist, has said that if you were to remove the digit 8 from the universe, reality as we now know it, would collapse. Each of us is equally unique. We cannot be duplicated. As we express more of who we are, we also change reality by sharing our highest gifts with the universe. This is why it is so vital to get in touch with your highest life purpose.

In order to cherish your life purpose, look within and ask yourself these important and stimulating questions:

• What am I most passionate about?

• What is my biggest dream?

• What do I most deeply want in my life?

• What would I do with the rest of my life if I knew I could not fail?

These questions send us straight to the heart and cause us to tune in and listen intuitively.

About seven years ago, we were sitting in our living room relaxing. After reading this amazing question, “What would I do with the rest of my life if I knew I could not fail,” we took a few moments to answer. Almost immediately, we concluded, “Well, we’d start a Love Center and teach people to be Love Masters.” This was a great surprise to us. We had never used the word “Love Center” or “Love Masters” before. We walked down the hallway of our home to a computer to see if www.TheLoveCenter.com was available. Surely it wouldn’t be! But it was.

Today, seven years later, we write this column to you as the co-founders of TheLoveCenter, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising universal love awareness and awakening a world of Love Masters. This has become our primary and deeply-fulfilling life purpose. And it all began by letting those questions above stretch us into higher awareness.

Many wonder whether or not they even have a life purpose. There is no doubt whatsoever that each of us carries a life purpose. And the fulfillment of our purpose makes a better world.

Whether we get in touch with our life purpose through hardships, passion, talent, gifts or intuition, we can begin right now to inquire within and become a knower of this all important answer to the question, “Why am I here?”

Here are several ways to cherish your life purpose.

First, begin to journal about your life purpose. At the top of the page, write, “Cherishing my life purpose.” Record your thoughts or feelings as you listen to your inner voice that so wants to be heard. Hold an open space to be filled so your deepest longing can become more visible and known to you in this quiet, listening time. Journaling is a way of observing yourself, which is also an ancient yoga practice of self study. It produces strong results.

Secondly, write out your highest life vision at this time. Don’t judge it. Don’t even hold yourself accountable to it. Just open up to the possibility and see what comes out of your innermost core thinking. Writing out your life vision helps to bring it into form.

After you write it out, begin to cherish it. Look at your vision as a living, creative unfoldment which can change and grow. As you spend time writing out your highest life vision, it needs your attention and encouragement to come into greater clarity, without judgment.

Think of someone you know who can hold your life purpose sacred with you and then share it with that person. Speaking your vision helps to awaken the universe to become active in helping you. While you’re doing this, tell your friend that you would also like to cherish his or her life purpose as well. By each of your cherishing, you will help to bring your vision forward through your love and encouragement.

Cherishing, of course, means you aren’t comparing your life purpose to others’ life purposes. And you aren’t going into negativity with doubt, envy, frustration or fear. You are merely enjoying and appreciating so deeply what you are learning about yourself and the value of your life. See how much compassion you can show to yourself and to your friend during this process.

Finally, you are ready to take action. Turn to the same inner voice that you source for all your life’s guidance. Ask, “What one step would you guide me to take today?” Again, don’t judge the step or how tiny it may be. Just find a way to joyfully take the one little step and celebrate the fact that you are on the journey of your life purpose. Welcome to the heart of love.

 ©2006 Scott and Shannon Peck

Dr. Scott Peck and Shannon Peck are co-founders of TheLoveCenter, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to raising universal love awareness and awakening a world of Love Masters. This column is based on their new book, “Love Skills You Were Never Taught: Secrets of a Love Master” available at www.TheLoveCenter.com.