Andy, I have to say, sometimes you baffle me with the mind loops 🤗

But it's the title that jumps out and I think offers the best reflection - "does the One have motive". And I could add to that, does the One also have purpose?

Can you see the very question is to consider the One as some kind of identity that's forming intention? But then you have to ask, "where did this One come from?" And then, "what preceded it?" Because you can't get something from nothing.

Can we accept the One as nothing? Without the ego loading that as less than?
When we can do this, then we can truly embrace the One as everything.
To be everything is to be infinite potential. Why, how can I say that?
Because to be the all of it is to be the ups and the downs of it, the peaks and the troughs of the waves through life. And so the One is that zero-sum total of all this activity. Therefore I can say, "infinite potential" - from which all arises.

But to be this infinite potential must precede any kind of mind, any kind of identity, and therefore any kind of intention.

Life, the relativity, simply explodes from this Source and contracts back in, continually - as you rightly point out as what the Brahmans call the "big in-breath and out-breath" (if I've termed that correctly).

So life happens.

And, it does feel like purpose and motivation - because it's constantly rendering itself as the Flower of Life and crystallising this all around us.
So it feels like purpose, it feels like motive, it feels like intention.

I'm not saying there is no Being - no God source. I'm absolutely saying that. But to me, the true condition of the God source is this "homeostasis" that you speak of, which is the natural background state - a canvas upon which life is painting itself. To the degree I can accept this, is the degree I experience the unfiltered (beyond the mind!) true joy of living - the freedom of life itself.

Blessings

Open 🙏