From Guideposts.org:

How to Find Your Life’s Purpose

Why am I here? What am I supposed to do with my life?

Best-selling author Eckhart Tolle’s advice on how to find your life’s purpose is quite simple: start by knowing who you are.

Backstage at a recording of Oprah Winfrey’s second installment of her popular speaker series, Super Soul Sessions last week, Tolle told Guideposts.org that people must first understand what makes them special.

“The light of God that shines through every human being is their innermost essential identity,” Tolle says. “In that sense, you are special.”

Though humans have a tendency to define themselves comparatively, based on the people around them, Tolle suggests understanding specialness in a way that’s solely between you and God.

READ OUTTAKES OF MY INTERVIEW WITH ECKHART TOLLE HERE.

“It’s a specialness that honors the uniqueness of you and the way in which you can contribute in your own unique way to this universe.”

Your contribution to the world, he says, is simply a manifestation of your understanding of your connection to God.

“It’s not everyone’s destiny to create something huge,” Tolle says. The key is not the number of people you impact but the way in which you impact them. “There are people who are happy doing little things, who don’t have huge ambitions, but they love what they do. They enjoy every moment of it. That’s a way of being special because everyone who comes into contact with you feels better after coming into contact with you.”

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