There’s a quiet tension most of us carry — a lingering question beneath our routines, ambitions, and achievements: Am I living with purpose, or just surviving a system? The image above dares to place this question in a much larger context, linking your daily life, the structure of cities, the brain, and the history of the universe into a single, sweeping evolutionary arc.

At the top right, we see you, a single dot in the structured chaos of the cityscape — a space designed not necessarily to reveal purpose, but to enforce order through money, architecture, and systems of productivity. It’s a domain of constructed identity, where one is told who to be.

But purpose does not begin there.

Following the arrow downward, we encounter the brain — not the organ as we know it, but a deeper metaphor: the perceptive self embedded in time, shaped by memory and conditioning. And yet, even deeper than the brain is the mind — the field capable of realising its disconnection, of returning to something beyond form.

This leads us to the cosmic shell in the centre: the evolutionary spiral of the universe. Here, you are no longer a citizen of a nation or a participant in an economy. You are an expression of time, gravity, energy, and potential. The “This is You in Universe” arrow asks a radical question: Which version of you is real?

The image suggests that walking in your true purpose is not about climbing higher in the city, but moving deeper into the universal unfolding. Purpose, then, is not a career or a role — but the natural alignment of your brain-mind back to the source that created everything.

The red arrows circling back into the origin invite reflection: Can we return — not physically, but perceptually — to this source? Can we live from a mind that remembers its cosmic root rather than one conditioned by societal patterns?

So ask yourself, right now:
Are you walking toward your centre or spiralling away from it?
Are your thoughts, actions, and intentions guided by the structure of cities or the structure of the cosmos?

Perhaps the real path to purpose lies not outward but inward, not in creation of things, but in reconnection to origin. And yet, walking in purpose may also mean bringing that inner coherence back into society — living in the cityscape not as a product of it, but as a participant rooted in something far deeper. To walk in purpose is both a return and a contribution: a return to source, and a conscious shaping of the world from that place of knowing.

This means our responsibility to society is not to escape it, but to elevate it — through presence, insight, and integrity. We bring purpose into the city not by rejecting its structure, but by shifting how we exist within it. Every interaction becomes an opportunity to act from clarity rather than conditioning. Every system we participate in can be gently rebalanced by a presence that is no longer seeking itself in it.

To walk in purpose is to be a quiet architect of change. Not to revolt, but to re-tune. Not to conform, but to emanate coherence. You may still walk the city streets, still earn, build, and serve — but now from the centre of your being, not the edge. That is the responsibility of awareness: not escape, but embodiment.

“But the people I found, the people I was attracted to were not unlike myself. They were trying to find order in their world, looking for the centre…” — V. S. Naipaul, Finding the Centre

Naipaul’s insight — that both the writer and their companions are in a deeper quest for inner alignment — echoes the same arc explored here. The centre is not a destination but a sense-making clarity within, sought by those who feel the tension of inner and outer worlds.

The paradox of belonging is this: even when we are drawn into society, our deeper aim may remain the same — to reconcile the order of the city with the order of the self. Purpose arises at the convergence of introspection, where inner coherence meets outer engagement.