Higher Purpose: How to Find More Inspiration, Meaning, and Purpose in Your Life

Higher Purpose: How to Find More Inspiration, Meaning, and Purpose in Your Life

by Robert Holden
Higher Purpose: How to Find More Inspiration, Meaning, and Purpose in Your Life

Higher Purpose: How to Find More Inspiration, Meaning, and Purpose in Your Life

by Robert Holden

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Overview

Why are you here? What is life for? What are you meant to do? Best-selling author Robert Holden helps you go from looking for your purpose to living it. (Hint: It’s not just about you.)

“How do I find my life’s purpose?” In the 10-year run of Robert Holden’s call-in radio show, Shift Happens!, his listeners asked that question more often than any other, by far. It seems everybody is looking for their purpose, and yet we all struggle to recognize it and live it. 
In Higher Purpose, Holden takes readers on an epic journey of self-discovery that includes the hero’s journey with Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung’s work on true vocation, Victor Frankl’s search for meaning, a pilgrimage with St. Francis of Assisi, the poetry of Wordsworth and Rilke, and much more. The journey has four stages: 

  • The Call” explores “the calling” inside you to live a more meaningful life.
  • “The Path” helps you to realize what inspires you, what brings you alive, to follow your joy, and to do more of what you love.
  • “The Ordeal” tackles the inner blocks, the road of trials, and challenges you must overcome to live your higher purpose.
  • “The Victory” encourages you to not betray yourself, to “sing your whole song,” and to keep on saying YES to your soul’s high adventure.
 In Higher Purpose, Holden explores three distinct levels of purpose: your unique purpose, a shared purpose, and the greater purpose of life. He offers inquiries, meditations, and journaling exercises to help you live your purpose every day. And he shares stories from his own life and conversations with a host of remarkable people—Maya Angelou, Louise Hay, Jean Houston, Matthew Fox, Robert Thurman, Caroline Myss, Andrew Harvey, Wayne Dyer, Oprah Winfrey, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781401965488
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Publication date: 11/01/2022
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 842,185
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Robert Holden, Ph.D.’s innovative work on psychology and spirituality has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, and the PBS special Shift Happens! and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy. Robert leads Living Your Purpose retreats to Assisi. He hosts a Hero’s Journey Mastermind. He has taught workshops on Purpose & the Enneagram in London, Findhorn, and Italy. His article for Oprah.com, “Discover Your Purpose,” is a people’s favorite.Robert’s services as a consultant and coach are employed worldwide by organizations and brands such as Dove & the Real Beauty Campaign, the Body Shop, IBM, Google, and Virgin. In the last two years, he has worked with Unilever on a BRAND PURPOSE mission for all of its 400 brands.Robert has presented two TEDx talks on Destination Addiction and The Tea Meditation. He has given over 100 keynotes to industry and 50 keynote talks for I CAN DO IT! conferences worldwide. Robert is a best-selling author of 10 books, including Happiness NOW!, Authentic Success (formerly titled Success Intelligence), Shift Happens!, Loveability, Holy Shift!, Life Loves You (co-written with Louise Hay), and Finding Love Everywhere. www.robertholden.com

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

Introduction xv

Part I The Call

A Bigger Me 3

Questions to Live By 15

A Sense of Destiny 29

Answering the Call 45

Part II The Path

The Hero You Are 57

Joy Is Your Compass 71

A Meditation on Success 85

Doing What You Love 101

Part III The Ordeal

Make Me an Instrument 115

The Death of Normal 129

In a Dark Place 141

The Enneagram Chapter 155

Part IV The Victory

A Commencement Speech 173

Not Selling Yourself Short 189

Presence of Love 199

Sing the Whole Song 211

Endnotes 227

Higher Purpose Library 239

Acknowledgments 241

Credits 245

About the Author 247

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