The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose - Softcover

Millman, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 091581160X ISBN 13: 9780915811601

Publisher: H J Kramer, 1993

Synopsis

<div><p>Dan Millman presents an entirely new way of understanding life and the forces that shape it. The Life-Purpose System, a modern method of personal growth based on ancient wisdom, has helped thousands of people find new meaning, purpose, and direction in their lives. <i>The Life You Were Born to Live</i> features:<br><br></p><ul><li>the thirty-seven paths of life <li>how to determine your life path and the life paths of others <li>core issues, inborn talents, and special needs of each path, including health, money, and sexuality <li>guidelines for finding a career consistent with your innate drives and abilities <li>the hidden dynamics of your relationships <li>how to live in harmony with the cycles of life</li></li></li></li></li></li></ul>The Life-Purpose System explores key spiritual laws &#151; universal principles specific to each life path &#151; that help you clarify the past, understand the present, and shape the future. It can generate a quantum leap in self-understanding and may even change the course of your life.</div>

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About the Author

<div><b>Dan Millman</b>, a former world-champion athlete and college professor, is the author of numerous books, including <i>Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, The Laws of Spirit</i>, and <i>The Journeys of Socrates</i>. His writings have inspired millions of readers in more than thirty languages. <br><br>Dan teaches worldwide, sharing realistic ways to live with a peaceful heart and warrior spirit, transforming everyday life into a path of personal and spiritual growth. His work has influenced men and women from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, entertainment, sports, and the arts.</div>

From the Back Cover

In what has become a classic reference work read by over a million people worldwide, The Life You Were Born to Live presents a modern method based on ancient wisdom that has helped legions of people find new meaning, purpose, and direction. The Life You Were Born to Live, reveals a precise method to determine your own life path and the life paths of others; your core issues and hidden calling; your innate talents as well as challenges in areas of health, money, sexuality, and other areas.

It also includes guidelines to career and livelihood resonant with your drives and abilities, as well as a section enabling you to access immensely helpful insight into the issues of your personal and professional relationships -- and insight into the nine-year cycles of life and where you currently are in your own cycle.

Perhaps the most significant part of the book are key spiritual or universal laws -- keys to help you overcome the hurdles on your own particular path revealed earlier in the book.

This book has deepened the understanding and even changed the lives of countless people, and can help you to understand your past, clarify the present, and empower your future.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The entire birth number indicates, in pure mathematical form, the particular blend of energies comprising each individual's life path. This path does not just lead us forward; it leads us upward and represents the mountain we are here to climb. The final or right-hand digit or digits of our birth number indicate the summit of this mountainout primary life purpose. In order to reach this summit and experience the fulfillment of our personal destiny, we need to pass through the left-most digitswith their associated issues and energiesand bring them to maturity. Viewing our life's journey as a mountain path leads to an important discovery, our life purposewhat we're here to do is not what comes easiest. This statement, which I will repeat as an emphatic reminder throughout this book, suggests that although life itself doesn't have to involve unnecessary struggle, this world does involve challenges and tests. In particular, on the mountain path of personal evolution, as we work to fulfill our life purpose, we engage in a creative struggle with negative or undeveloped tendencies related to our life purpose. Climbing up a mountain path and rising to greater heights requires courage, commitment, and directed effort. If we have prepared well for our climb, it will be less difficult than if we are unprepared; but either way its still a climb. We don't begin our climb at the summit; we begin down at the base, and as we ascend through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, we encounter a period of preparation, initiation, and trainingincluding challenges through which we come to recognize and improve our weaknesses and to appreciate our strengths. Those of us who become disheartened or discouraged when life feels like an uphill climb have forgotten that its supposed to be a challenge; the effort creates fires that temper us and strengthen our spirit. The paths of life hold adventure and danger, pleasure and difficulty. Our own path may seem clear and direct for a time, then turn sharply in a surprising direction. At certain points on our journey, the road forks and we make choices that influence the rest of our life; we may choose to push onward and upward, to coast downward, or to remain where we are. Each path has its own challenges, each challenge contains a lesson, and each lesson leads toward the summit of the mountain we were born to climb. Although our path may feel very difficult at times, the higher we climb, the better the view. Our life purpose represents the summit, and our birth number points the way. What we do with our potential, however, is largely up to us. The extent to which we fulfill our potential depends upon how we respond to the challenges we meet on our path. We may, at times, slow down or stop to gather our strength (or our wits) before pushing on; some of us may abandon the climb for lack of confidence. This choice is our own business and our own right, but the saying Do it right or do it over may also apply to lifetimes. We cannot fall off the path. Whenever we step, it appears beneath our feet. It may twist or curve, but it will eventually lead us upwards, because that is the clear call and direction of our evolutionary journey. This metaphor of a mountain path allows us to reconcile an ancient paradox about whether we truly have free will or whether our life is somehow predestined. At the moment of birth, we are each given a specific inner mountain to climb, reflecting the force of predestination. How we climb and the time we take are up to us, reflecting the power of free will. In other words, were given the playing field, but we choose how to play the game. We always have the power of choice, discipline, responsibility, and commitment. No life path is harder or easier, better or worse, than any other, except to the degree we make it so. Supporting, teaching, or guiding others who are facing the same or similar issues helps us to progress on our own path. We know this subconsciously; thus, we often teach what we most need to learn. Finally, when we reach the summit of our mountain, we make a wonderful and startling discovery that its not the end of the journey. We are not just here to achieve our life purpose; we are here to transcend it. In other words, when we reach the top of our mountain, we keep on rising. What the numbers mean: The Life-Purpose System, like any new way of seeing, may take a little time to learn, so we begin gradually, with a summary look at the life issues associated with each primary digit that makes up the birth numbers. 1:

Creativity and Confidence

2:

Cooperation and Balance

3:

Expression and Sensitivity

4:

Stability and Process

5:

Freedom and Discipline

6:

Vision and Acceptance

7:

Trust and Openness

8:

Abundance and Power

9:

Integrity and Wisdom

0:

Inner Gifts When I write about 1s, 2s, 3s, and so on, I am referring to the individuals working that particular energy as their final, right-hand number (their primary life purpose. For example, the primary number 3 represents both the major challenge and the deeper purpose for 3s, who include 12/3s, 21/3s, 30/3s, and, to a lesser degree, all those with a 3 in their birth number.

Edition details

• Publisher: H J Kramer
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 091581160X
• ISBN 13: 9780915811601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468