Our true purpose in life has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be imagined, let alone anxiously pursued.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that the revelation of what is false is made possible by the light of truth, so that we can gradually stop being deceived by harmful lies.

Topic: A Classroom Exercise in Learning to Listen from and to Speak With All of Our Parts (3/7/18 Classroom Talk)...

When living within the limits of what is known is also seen as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that you have been... in favor of discovering all you are yet to be.

We can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or feeling that rushes in and sweeps us off of our feet because this "I" - this sense of self suddenly in a struggle to escape some psychological storm - is itself part of the tempest it so vigorously resists.

Nothing is created to "have and to hold," but rather always to be transformed by the Greater Life in which it is held, and that acts upon it... in order to bring about and reveal the infinite possibilities inherent in its continual perfection.

Nothing in the universe has the power to trap and hold the human mind in captivity other than the prison it builds for itself as it struggles to escape a dark world it has dreamed into existence... a self-created cage whose bars are the stuff of imagination.

Only consistent, persistent inner-work can bring us to the threshold of the "Truth that sets us free." And yet, the following is equally true: the liberation we seek will continue to elude us until every effort to know the truth of ourselves - by thinking about ourselves - has proven useless.

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a "right place" for yourself - or for the well-being of those around you - just go quiet; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

Our greatest gift in life is found in our God-given right to so completely understand any unwanted moment – including whatever painful, or otherwise conflicted character it may bring up within us – as to be set completely free of any concern over it, or about ourselves.

We can console ourselves by explaining our pain to ourselves, or we can dig in and do the work of consciously exploring it. One of these two actions produces “fool’s gold,” while the other enriches the soul... even as it leads it to liberation. Choose wisely!

True compassion ­– a patience that never punishes – is our yet realized right to “love our neighbor as ourself.” But this Grace belongs only to those who have seen – and who dare to remember – this one great Truth in a time of trial with those who trouble us: there is no separate self.