Everybody is born with a life task. After you’ve gone through a certain amount of self-evolution, then automatically your gifts start flowing out of you. How do you know what your task is? It’s easy. The thing you want to do more than anything in the world, the thing you’ve been telling yourself you’re not good enough to do. It’s in the chest, and you can actually feel the ache in the upper chest area above the heart, in the middle above the heart. That is what I call the spiritual longing.

So if you have said, “If only I could learn how to do…” instead say, “What do I long to do?” And that is your path of healing. If it means being a teacher or a mathematician or a bus driver, then that’s what it is. It’s whatever you want to do. And that will also lead you on the path of transformation, transcendence and transfiguration. It’s automatic. And that’s what life is about.” _Barbara Brennan