Your Passion is Your Life’s Purpose
- Jun 9
- 5 min read
Written by Guy Van de Putte, Spiritual Guide & Mentor
Guy Van de Putte works as a guide for those looking for help navigating life's challenges or finding themselves at a crossroads. Blending shamanism, breathwork and constellation therapy with the non-dual and yogic traditions, he has a wide toolkit to support the power of presence and the healing words to accommodate lasting change.
Have you ever had that feeling like there’s something you’re supposed to do here, but you can’t remember what it is? You’re alive, on planet Earth, with a body, a mind, and a billion options to choose from. The vast array of choices seems to paralyze you. You look around, or on social media, and it looks as if everybody has got it all figured out and under control. They’re living the dream. Or so it seems. All the while, you haven’t got a clue what to do or how to do it. You might try to give the impression you actually do, but deep down, something feels missing.
A burning thought emerges. There must be more to life than this. A nine to five, pretty structured life, organized social activities, and interactions. Everything Hollywood promised you. But what’s the purpose of it all? Were you born to work, sleep, consume, be like everybody else? The fancy job title has lost its blaze of glory, and the glorious paycheck has become business as usual. The dreams you had as a child seem like distant or even repressed memories. It’s like you have forgotten all about that important thing you were supposed to be doing here.
People call it a midlife crisis. Or a spiritual awakening. Or maybe just a phase. It might be the first time in our lives we have actually stopped and started asking ourselves those deeper questions. Our minds keep raging, looking for clues and trying to figure it all out. Life turned out boring, and we desperately want to reignite the spark we felt as children, when all seemed possible. We feel stuck. We might be tempted to take bold actions. Leave our jobs or relationships, or even take a gap year to travel the world to “find ourselves”.
The purpose of life is just being alive and in life. To do what comes naturally to us. When we were growing up, everybody asked us what we wanted to do, or rather become, when we were older. The best answer to that would be “happy,” of course. But that’s not what was meant. What was expected was a job title like pilot, teacher, doctor, or nurse. At that moment, a seed was planted in our minds. We had to become something. Just being ourselves wasn’t enough. So we started thinking big, because there were expectations now. We had to make our parents proud.
The most interesting people I know didn’t conform. They created. Some find it even hard to give themselves a job title. They do a bit of this, a bit of that. Whatever seems to pull them at any given moment. They seem to float along with life and always land on their feet. Some offer more distinct services. Others change with the winds, but their work evolves with their personal growth.
Now you might be thinking there’s nothing out there for you because you can’t really think of anything. But you don’t have to. What’s holding us back is not the lack of a passion in our lives, but the ideas we have made up in our mind about it. So in that sense, that very mind that is trying to figure it out is at the same time sabotaging the possible outcome. You know what you like to do, but maybe you don’t see how you can make a living out of it. Maybe you think you’re not good enough to do it. Maybe you don’t know where to start. Or thousands and thousands of other possible reasons not to do it, not to take it further.
Let’s say you like to write. Just start writing. Make time for it every day. You don’t need to have an entire novel in your mind. You don’t need to know how the book should be published or who would buy it. Take it step by step. Start acting upon it. Just for the pure joy of doing it. Maybe you’ll find out it’s not entirely what you prefer, but it will lead to something else. There is no destination to get to, carved in stone. So you cannot fail. Let your path unfold.
Ask yourself the question at any moment. What would be the most exciting to do now? Without thinking what it should lead to. That’s the future. Stay in the present, in the now. Stay in this moment. Let the future figure itself out. The rosebud doesn’t think about when it should bloom or not. It just blooms, because it’s built into it. That’s how it works for all of life, all of creation. Accordingly, also for you. Since you are part of creation, part of life.
You didn’t choose what you like. You were born with it. It was planted within you to share with the world. Just become still and listen to that quiet voice of intuition inside of you. Let that voice be your guide. Observe all the limiting beliefs that surface. All the ideas of not knowing how or not being good enough. By becoming conscious of what they are, you expose them to the light, and they can start to dissolve. You don’t have to let them decide anymore. You create a choice for yourself.
When those automated beliefs and reactions become a thing from the past, you can truly start being yourself at any given moment. You’ll be in sync with the flow of life and all of creation. You’ll be in harmony. Trust in life and trust that the interests you were born with won’t lead you astray. Let them be your compass while you navigate this wonderful and adventurous journey called Life.
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Guy Van de Putte, Spiritual Guide & Mentor
Guy Van de Putte works as a guide for all those looking for help navigating life's challenges or finding themselves at a crossroads. His passion is helping people who are ready to wake up go beyond the stories and patterns that unconsciously run their lives. Thereby helping them to debunk the lies they told themselves, that are at the root of all the drama in their life, and take back the power over their own lives. So the old wounds from the past can be permanently healed and a new life of true freedom can emerge out of that. A fulfilled life in service of and in harmony with their true calling.
