Q: Your book is helping me out of a longstanding, deep rut, so thank you. I have a question regarding finding one’s authentic pattern. Is pattern the same as purpose, and how does one find it?

A: The simplest way to put this is, purpose is something the mind assigns after the fact to make sense of what’s already happening. Pattern is what remains when the story-making stops. It reveals itself only when the search collapses.

Purpose offers direction, validation, and a reason to keep going. The search for purpose is the search for meaning and on…