Idle hands do the devil's work.

Sometimes people ask me, Leo, what's the point of having a life purpose or working towards a life purpose if everything is meaningless

ultimately in the big picture sense.

And isn't life purpose itself just a construct of the ego mind.

So how do you square the spiritual pursuits of awakening and so forth that you talk about

with this very materialistic sort of approach of life purpose.

Isn't life purpose just something the ego is up to?

But what you don't take into account when you think this way is that

you're still going to be living a life in some way no matter what, no matter how awakened you are,

and no matter whether you want to pursue a life purpose or you don't, what you have to understand is that if you don't adopt a life purpose,

oftentimes what happens is that the default position,

basically what would be the case if you don't consciously build a life on purpose and pursue work on purpose is that you will fall into a toxic life purpose.

And that's what I want to elaborate upon today.

I see this more and more.

We see this more and more. We see this all out throughout history, throughout the media, with celebrities

and other people who fall into toxic life purposes because they make the mistake of not

consciously working on their purpose. People who just get a job for the sake of

having a job just to pay the bills. You might wonder, well, what's wrong with that? I have to eat,

don't I have to pay my bills? Yes, of course we all have to eat and we all have to pay our bills.

But the problem with doing work just for the sake of earning money is that then you become

very persuadable to do any kind of work that will earn new money.

And usually what that means is the work that pays the most money a lot of times

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