Personal efforts to attain, to own, to become, actually take us away from the truth of our being. Challenges are good and help to build character. Understanding the true context and nature of all our experience requires something from us. In the end, the highest purpose is revealed in the unknown with heart open, living for the sake of the whole.
How can we serve the highest purpose in life? By seeing all of the ways that we resist and make demands upon Life, and simply stop doing that. The whole overlay of beliefs and assumptions about our relationship to life have to come into question. This is like ceasing to become.
“But, wait! Won’t I just become a blob on the couch, never caring about anything, never doing anything. Aren’t we supposed to be engaged with life? Aren’t I supposed to ‘See and do’?”