Do you Have Your Soul Mission?

To understand your Soul's mission, it is first important to understand what it is not.

Mission is different than vocation, which is a sense of calling to a particular career, though sometimes the Soul's mission may influence the choice of career as an avenue of service or expression of the Soul's abilities.

Mission is also different than avocation, which are interests and pastimes freely chosen for leisure time entertainment or hobby. People do become obsessed with their hobbies, become avid collectors or zealous fans; but the sense of obsession that accompanies a true mission is deeper, more profound—it moves you from your very core.

Mission is not revealed in the hallucinations and voices of the madman, in the ravings of the would-be prophet possessed by alleged Divine-inspiration, or in the delirium of the intoxicated inebriate. It comes as a clear knowing while you are rational, sober and awake, arising from the touchstone of your deepest sense of truth.

When you discover your mission—when your Soul reveals this to you—you will have a clear knowing about what you are here to do. This knowing abides with you, day and night. It guides you, and whispers to you about what you need to do next. When you discover your mission, you also discover your Soul.

The Purpose of Spiritual Development
Purpose is different than mission. Purpose is the intuition of your spiritual goal; mission is what you live as you move towards this goal. Purpose is the image of your completion. It is the holy seed at the end of your journey that lets you know you have accomplished all that the Divine has sent your ensouling entity here to do.

Those that are under a karmic-driven mission usually only experience the expressed purpose of the Soul. This is the aspect of the Soul's abilities and virtue that express through the personality. For example, the gifted musician, the entrepreneurial business leader, and the creative inventor may each be inspired by the Soul's expressed purpose.

Those that resonate to an inner spiritual calling—aspirants, disciples and Initiates—experience the intrinsic purpose of the Soul. The intrinsic purpose is a calling to actualize a specific spiritual attainment, or to complete a spiritual work.