A Walk with Purpose (Part 1)

On This Walk

What is my purpose? What is the meaning of this life?

There are moments when these questions come screaming at me with this tremendous sense of urgency for years. At times, I've had answers to some of these questions, and other times I've struggled greatly when these answers no longer held true.

One of the most recent chapters of this walk that I’ve been on is something that I wanted to share with you in this two-part conversation because it was such an extraordinary experience.

Join me as we unfold this part of my journey with my walking partner for today, Tim Corcoran.

In This Episode

• (04:48) - What the Buddha did not know about hunting
• (09:14) - Losing my connection with nature
• (15:51) - My path with mindfulness, Buddhism, and other related wisdom traditions
• (24:09) - Why conversations about purpose have become so prevalent
• (32:05) - Belonging is worth investing in
• (40:10) - What is a soul wander?
• (47:00) - How my hibernation in a cave led to my first intimate experience with a guardian tree
• (53:19) - Tim’s story of Grizzly Butte
• (1:07:58) - Within your wanders, pay attention to your noticings
• (1:14:20) - Tim’s philosophy on healing

Notable Quotes

• “Many people are waking up and saying, okay, how can I help? This is not right. Okay sure, I can ascend, I can experience meditation. It's a great break from the craziness and the suffering of the physical world. I've got kids, I have a wife, I have children in my community I care about. What are future generations going to experience? What can I actually give to this? What am I gonna leave behind? ‘It's all temporary, don't worry about it, I'll meet you on the other side’. No, you know, I care about this earth. This earth has helped me, so I love it so much, and I want to leave the best gift I can to this planet. I think more and more people are waking up to that or asking those questions, why the heck am I really here? Is it just random? Was it just an accident? No, there must be a reason why I have taken birth at this time. There must be something I have to offer. That's what I hear from the people I work with, and the people who reach out to me and conversations like this that need that yearning just grows and grows, and so that is hopeful to me.” - Tim (24:45)
• “There's something that we are connecting to through those experiences that is either informing or working with our soul to transform us into the path that we're meant to be on. And it's in those moments of balance that we start to connect to that and see what we've been through in a very, very different light. And it opens up something beautiful in us. I love that perspective of the language of minimum amount of healing. Because we're not meant to stay perpetually in that cycle. We're not meant to be perpetually in any cycle, and that's where we don't wanna get lost in the healing. We don't wanna get lost in dreaming of this life. We want to be able to continue. Let's move forward in that dream. Let's be aware that we're dreaming and let's interact with it in a very different way. But as we continue to grow from that place of being, and being able to bring that forward, and pay that forward, and offer that giveaway to others, and we'll heal along the way as we need to continue to because it's gonna happen.” - Luke (1:17:58)

Our Guest

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature Based Purpose Guidance to support people with a love for wild nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their purpose. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005 dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.

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