Purpose Is Excavated

You don't invent it. You dig it up.

Your purpose isn't invented, it's excavated — and the dig site is your own life.

We tend to solve most powerfully the things we've personally felt.

Purpose usually sits where your deepest 'this shouldn't be this way' meets what you can actually do about it.

Mine was hiding in the things I'd lived through, not in anything I went out searching for.

What can't you stop noticing?

The thing that quietly bothers you is usually a clue. Follow it down a little.