Dreams

With myself, for example, the purpose I discovered when I discovered my purpose was to show people the way. That was the original purpose statement I learned initially in a dream, which I wrote about in my book True Purpose, and then later by other means, which we can talk about. The dream that I had where I initially learned my purpose was very short and it's the only dream I've ever had where there were no visuals. I was asleep and it's pitch black and I hear a booming voice say, 'Your purpose is to help others find their path.' And then I woke up and that was the entire dream. It lasted a couple of seconds tops. I've never forgotten it and I never will. Then I had to try to figure out what to do with that, which is, of course, a whole other problem with purpose. That was the initial moment in which my purpose became clear to me. I so didn't know what to do with it that I had to find that purpose again a couple of years later, another way, which is actually not uncommon. When people learn their purpose, they so don't know what to do about it that they sort of put the genie back in the bottle, and then it pops back up again later.