I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
Interpretation
The essence of life is to embrace our true selves and share love authentically.
In this quote, Anita Moorjani emphasizes the core purpose of life as being true to oneself. By advocating for authenticity and love, she suggests that life’s ultimate goal is to express our genuine identity and to spread love, which enriches our existence and connects us all.
In practice
During a leadership seminar, one could use this quote to inspire participants to embrace their authentic leadership styles.
I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.
When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion, or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite and much more powerful-a complete and whole entity that isn’t broken or damaged in any way. The infinite me already contains all the resources I need to navigate through life, because I’m One with Universal energy. In fact, I am Universal energy.
Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.
The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
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