My spiritual Journey- Episode 1: Living with intention, purpose, and authenticity

Hi! It’s currently 10:37 pm and I am listening to Oprah Winfrey’s SuperSoul Conversation Podcast which is amazing. You should listen to it too. Recently, I have been trying to improve my spirituality in terms of a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

I am learning that life is way more deeper than the physical, achievements, and success. I am trying to be more still to experience God’s greatness on a deeper level. I am learning to live with more consciousness, intention, and purpose by being true to myself through a personal relationship with the Ultimate Creator, God. I have learned that Religion and Spirituality are two different things.

Religion is a platform to help people experience the force of the supreme being, God. This does not mean you would ultimately experience that intimate relationship with God. it just means you are fortunate to receive His grace, and get to know that He exists.

Spirituality, on the other hand, is connecting to something higher than yourself (not necessarily the Christian God), and believing that there is something bigger than yourself, and there is a spiritual realm. Spirituality and Religion work together in ultimately serving our Heavenly Father.

Living with intention and Purpose

I am starting to learn that my purpose on earth is beyond the physical. One day, while I was in school, I was walking and being more present with myself, and I just started to think to myself: “is this really all that I am?” I would feel indifferent about anything that happens whether it caused me to be naturally happy or sad. At that moment, I felt like I was ready for something different. I felt like God was calling me, and bringing myself to this awareness that I need to get closer with God in order to learn and recognize my purpose. So I started to listen to spiritual podcasts and read books which, I must say is difficult to be consistent in. But what that day taught me was to learn to live with purpose and intention. This does not mean I now have a perfect relationship with God. This just means I am on a more intentional journey to living with purpose and finding my role on earth in God.

Authenticity

This is a very important topic for me because I feel like a lot of us are really living unconscious inauthentic lives. I feel like we are not independent of our thoughts. Today, where popular opinion matters, people are now dependent on other people’s thoughts to direct the course of their lives, the positions they take in the society, and eventually what they believe in. The problem I have with this is the fact that this has taken away from us the ability to have intellectual conversations and independent thinking as to why we are thinking, saying, and acting.

I would stop here because if I keep on writing, this would never end. But this has caused me to start a series of something called “My Spiritual Journey.” I am doing this not just for people to read, experience, and learn from, but to journal my thoughts and intellectual conversations that occur in my head. I just want to put everything in writing because I am always having conversations in my head. I would really appreciate if you can give me feedback and share your spiritual journey with me to.