Know in Your Heart, See in Your Mind...

Thumotic Living, Part 3: Amorality

If a morality is a set of rational concepts about what is right and wrong, thumotic living is amoral. Not immoral. Amoral.

It's amoral because when we live from our spirit and heart, complying with our own or some else's rational concepts about right and wrong are irrelevant. 

What matters is fulfilling the life-affirming desires of our heart.

Thumotic Living, Part 1: From Our Spirit

My next two or three posts will be about thumotic living. Here's part one:

Thumotic living is living from our thumos, our spirit, that which makes us alive.

Since we experience  our thumos in our chest, it is associated with our heart. Thumotic living is also living from our heart.

We can feel when we're living from our thumos. Sometimes we feel warmth in our chest, our heart. Sometimes the warmth blazes into a heated flame of passion. Whether it's warmth or flame it compels us to speak and act before we think.

Thumotic living is living not according to the dictates of a divine or human authority figure. It's not living according to a religion, philosophy, or moral code. It's not living according to reason, rationality, or logic. It's not concerned with conforming with current social mores.

Thumotic living is irrational. It's free-spirited living that manifests in our actions the life-affirming desires of our heart.  

How to Know Your Purpose

If you want to know the purpose of your life, I recommend that you look no further than your own spirit.

Set aside some uninterrupted time for yourself. You might find it helpful to have some way to record your thoughts.

Get comfortable. Relax. You might want to place one or both hands over your breast bone and become aware of your heart beat. Let your attention be on the area beneath around your hands on your chest. 

This area has long been associated with our spirit. It has has also been called our heart as in "the heart of the matter" and the core of who we are.  

Relax and breathe. Let your intention be to know the life-affirming desires of your heart and spirit.

Be open. Listen. Listen to what your spirit says when you ask it to speak to you and reveal its life-affirming desires.

If you feel fear, let it come and visit for a bit. And let it pass.

Let  the desires of your heart emerge into your awareness. Feel them.

They show you the purpose of your life. 

Your purpose is to fulfill the life-affirming desires of our heart rather than deny them. 

The life-affirming desires of your heart are yours and yours alone to fulfill.

We need you fulfill them. Please don't let us or yourself down. 

Become who you are meant to become. We need what only you can give.

Make us proud.