Robert Shetterly, Artist and Activist
What is your life’s purpose?
My life's mission has become to use my passion and my talent to increase, in whatever little way I can, the amount of peace, justice, responsibility, sanity, and compassion in the world.
How are you living your purpose?
For the past 16 years, I've been painting a series of portraits I call “Americans Who Tell the Truth.” They are portraits of some of the people who have struggled to close the gap between what we say as a country about our ideals and what we do. The portraits travel to schools, colleges, museums, libraries, and churches all over the US. I use them to teach history and citizenship. And I run an educational project for middle school students challenging them to get engaged is serious issues.
August Turak, Author of Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life
What is your life’s purpose?
I am committed to passing on to others all that I have been so graciously given by God and my teachers.
How are you living your purpose?
The most inspirational stories are invariably not stories of complacent self-indulgence but stories of heroic sacrifice. If we want to get inspired, to be consistently at our best, we need a higher purpose, a heroic mission worth sacrificing for. A mission that lifts us up and out of our petty selves and frees us from the bondage of merely our selfish motivations.
Sandra Ingerman, Helping Us Manifest Change
What is your life’s purpose?
My life’s purpose and passion are to help people grow, heal from their past traumas, to bring in the goodness of life, to be a presence of love and light, and to gather communities together to perform ceremonial work.
Lisa Daron Grossman: Teaching Connection Coast to Coast
What is your life’s purpose?
My passion is connection, conversation, and challenging people to engage in micro-moments of engagement not just with friends and family, but with strangers.
How are you living your purpose?
I recently gave up my apartment in NYC, put all my things into storage, bought a car, and hit the road. Right now I am attempting to travel to every state in the U.S hosting workshops that aim to help de-stigmatize loneliness and share the science and healing benefits of face-to-face connection. This project, the Connection Cure, is living and breathing, shifting and growing, in real time, and life on the road is a new experience for me. I’m taking it day by day, hosting as many events as I can, and opening myself up to conversations with strangers whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Renee Linell, Author of The Burn Zone
What is your life’s purpose?
My life’s purpose it to be a living, breathing, walking manifestation of love.
How are you living your purpose?
By writing and publishing my life story, and by taking such good care of myself that I go out into the world filled up and able to offer love. I believe the key to freedom and joy is living authentically, as the truest versions of ourselves. Only when we truly accept ourselves can we accept others; and only when we truly stop judging and criticizing ourselves will we stop judging and criticizing others.
Jonni Pollard: Bringing Meditation to the Mainstream
What is your life’s purpose?
To remind humanity of our innate power to serve the greater good and realize this to the gateway to our highest level of fulfillment.
How are you living your purpose?
I am a meditation teacher and Co-Founder of 1 Giant Mind, an organization that teaches people from all around the world how to meditate. We also train passionate meditators through our academy to become teachers and bring meditation into their local communities, schools and workplaces. I'm an author, speaker and personal consultant to high performing individuals. I also travel the world facilitating mass meditation experiences at summits, festivals and conferences.
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