Why are you here? What is life for? What are you meant to do? Robert Holden helps you go from looking for your purpose to living it. (Hint: It’s not just about you.) "The best book on purpose I've ever read! Accept this invitation to awaken to the very reason you're here on Earth." — Mike Dooley , New York Times best-selling author of Infinite Possibilities and Life on Earth "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 the paperback edition of 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. "I hope Robert Holden's beautiful books, like this one . . . keep reaching more and more people and aid their heart to unfurl." — Daniel Ladinsky, author of The Gift and The Subject Tonight Is Love The best book on purpose I’ve ever read! Masterfully presented. Robert is a consummate storyteller and impassioned teacher, meticulously sequencing both for maximum effect. Accept this invitation to awaken to the very reason you’re here on Earth and to your sacred role in life. — Mike Dooley, New York Times best-selling author of Infinite Possibilities and Life on Earth Higher Purpose is a masterpiece! This wonderful book is a luminous and original presentation that offers some of the finest thoughts ever conjured on our life’s purpose—and I expect it will serve our human journey for many generations to come. —Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story and The Possible Human Life is only the journey of seeking your higher purpose. Everything we experience is in service to that, for we only begin to feel the gift and power of our life when we have animated our deeper purpose. But like all the deep treasures of the soul, we require guidance to recognize what purpose really means and then how to sense its force awakening within us. Robert Holden has provided us with that precious guidebook. — Caroline Myss, New York Times best-selling author of Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential and Intimate Conversations with the Divine In our demanding times, it is a blessing to hear a voice of such clarity, breadth, and depth coming our way in this spiritual memoir from Robert Holden. His life of hunting-gathering after spiritual wisdom, his wounds turned to grace, and his articulate and generous telling of his journey has birthed a book where Spirit breathes copiously! — Matthew Fox, New York Times best-selling author of Original Blessing and The Reinvention of Work Higher Purpose is a wise, profound, and deliciously open-hearted book written by one of our most skillful and luminous spiritual guides. Inside this book you will find all the inspiration, encouragement, and guidance you need to fulfill your most empowered destiny. — Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope and Engoldenment: A Year with Kabir If you long to know your purpose or be renewed in answering the Call of Soul’s Purpose, prepare to have your heart ignited. Robert’s depth of understanding, practical wisdom, and rich life experience weave an illuminating tapestry revealing the golden thread of purpose available for anyone to discover and activate! We can’t wait to share it with our students. It is a masterpiece! — Mary and Ron Hulnick, co-directors of University of Santa Monica and co-authors of Loyalty to Your Soul This is a life changing book. Each page I turned captured my attention more and more. It answered some of my deepest questions about life and helped to point my inner rudder where I needed to go. I quite simply couldn't pu