I am sure most of us know who Bruce Lee is, I read something very interesting that he said a long time ago. He told a story about a conversation he had with a master martial artist. In that conversation, the man asked Bruce to teach him everything he knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts.
The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
To help you define your purpose, you can look at it like this. People on this earth can be practically defined into three types. They will fulfill their purpose on earth by either: doing, knowing, or becoming something. Which one is most important to you?
To know why you were placed on this earth, you must begin with God, your creator. You were born by His purpose and for His purpose. See, spiritually, what I also discovered was the very thing I was running from; seeing myself through the eyes of Christ, was the very thing I needed. When I began to clear away the mental and emotional debris, I no longer concentrated on what had happened to me, I was able to meditate on what was
happening for me. MY Purpose!
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