life purpose
Reason for existing
Life purpose is someone's sense of their own reason for existing—the central aim or meaning that shapes their choices and gives direction to their life.
The phrase appears frequently in self-help and spiritual contexts: She finally found her life purpose in her forties.
Some treat it as a singular calling to discover; others see it as something constructed over time.
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- north starOrienting life principle
- true northDirection to the pole
- ikigaiJapanese term for purpose
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
authenticity · dharma · why · self-actualization · self-awareness · soul searching · introspection · finding yourself · altruism · meaning-making · vocation · raison d'être · ambition · mindfulness · self-discovery · mission · bigger picture · spirituality
- aspirationsdream, goals, dreams, mission, ambition
- purposeaim, goal, objective, mission, intention
- self-improvementpersonal growth, self-help books, focus, self-improvement, personal development
- finding oneselfsoul searching, introspection, meditation, self-awareness, reflection
- vocationcalling, vocation, divine calling, priesthood, mission
- personal concernspriorities, values, goals, beliefs, needs
life purposemeaninglessness
Lack of significance
purposelessness · nihilism · aimlessness · directionlessness · existential void
life purposeaimlessness
Lack of direction
directionlessness · apathy · drift · drifting · rudderlessness
life purposemere existence
subsistence · going nowhere · rat race · vegetating · spiritual death