I truly believe that we all have a deep-seated memory that whispers within us that tells us why we were born and what we came into this wonderful life to experience. I also perceive this embedded echo within our soul as our "true voice" which is the guidance we follow to life out our life's passion. As grow older; however, marry, have children, work/family responsibilities the white-noise in our daily lives pushes our "true voice" back somewhere, so far away, that we cannot hear it anymore. The result? We become less passionate in our lives or worse yet, forget what our passions once were.
So...why bother finding passion?
What's the point in identifying passion in our lives and living these out? I guess you have to ask yourself if you believe that your life is truly filled with joy, meaning and improves your health, relationships, self-image, creativity and maybe even your income?
Understanding or being in touch with what we are passionate about helps find a source of joy, inner peace, inspiration, success, improves our relationships with others and points us in the direction of a positive outlook.
In the book, The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch he made a number of compelling observations in his own life...one of which was something like this.. "Brick walls are there to help us know how bad we want something?" I added the question mark so you might ask yourself if this is true..and I think it is.
Passion Has Its own energy... Passion is a gift of the spirit combined with the totality of all the experiences we have lived through...each of us is endowed with the power to live and communicate with unbridled enthusiasm. Passion is most evident when the mind, body and spirit work with each other to create, develop and articulate feelings and ideas. Passion will enable you to overcome obstacles (real or imagined) and to see the world as a place of infinite potential.
You cannot fake passion...we sense it in the lack of sincerity, authenticity or lack of quality in a product...the power of passion forces us to see others for who they are, who they are becoming and often...and unfortunately, who they can never be.
Many men and women run from personal or professional passion for fear of being hurt. Past experiences dwell deep within each of us as a reminder of the searing pain of being hurt or burned and rears its ugly head in relationships, love and work. Sometimes, we become afrraid to take risks that come with living life to its fullest.
Most people, I think, when they have touched the fringes of true passion in their lives, if only for the briefest moment, at the most unexpected juncture in their lives, having the chance to inhale the "aroma of chance", "caressed themselves with the true passion of genuine affection"...we experience a glimpse of what passion has the potential to claim in our lives..
Which is frightening...
And some choose not to return to passion, staying far away, opting for the...predictable existence without passion.
Rather than taking a leap of faith...
Immersing yourself in the waters of the deepest joys...
Insisting instead on the safest "bubble"
That becomes...a sanitary, loveless, lifeless, colorless world where nothing new ever happens...day after day..month after month...year after year....until we forget what passion in our lives has the potential to become...
Imagine...instead....how much more meaningful your life would be with passion...as a person, as a lover, as a friend, as a business owner, employee, writer, artist, musician, husband, wife....
Imagine, for a moment...a world where we lived for the moment, spending more time enjoing reality than trying to escape it...a place where we don't need lawyers to stand before judges, psychologists to tell us we have emotional problems, or clergy to talk to the God on our behalf...
Living With Passion...Daily... The real sin in life is lacking the courage to express our convictions and zest for life....it should be a crime to bottle up passion you have once felt in order to "bottle it up" in a controlled fashion of literal non-existence.
In fact, I can't think of a worse existence than one where we are unable or refusing the things in life that need to be said, not singing what needs to be sung or forcing ourselves to no longer feel what was intended to be felt.
PASSION..shapes our existence and fuels the fire of inspiration and makes the heart and mind open up to change. It is fuel for the soul...a spark that illuminates our purpose.
Passion is yours to experience and revel in...even if it causes you to fall down and scrape your elbow ..in this world called "life", passion is your birthright..it is within you..it is yours to discover and master...it is yours to share with the world to make it a better place.
Passion...in love...is sparked by desire, fueled by love, sustained by hope, and re-defines itself over time to become stronger, deeper and more satisfying...passion in love is necessary to maintain a solid relationship between a man and a woman. When one or both loses passion, a significant link is broken and if broken over a long period of time becomes buried in the mundane activities of daily life until it dims to literal non-existence. Passion in love is what drew a man and a woman together in the first place...love is what sustains passion over time and differentiates itself between the impatience and "have to have it now" demands of lust. A relationship without passion, changes the definition of love and instead of being "in love"...we co-exist with love for another..they are two very different things much like empathy and sympathy. Living a lifetime without passion can seem more of a dull existence or become a "sentence" than choosing one with passion.
Passion in our daily lives with work or creative outlets is fuled by passion. Many people walk through the phases of life where their ideals, goals and desires change...everyone has a "fuel" for living..it is not something that is slapped into our genes by evolution (also known as survival)...we all want to survive! What is survival though if we are unfulfilled? What are we passionate enough about to feed our souls? At some point in life, each and every one of us may ask the silent question... what is my purpose? This is probably one of the most well-known rhetorical questions of the universe.
Writing is a creative outlook I have developed a passion for over the years..it is only recently I made the conscious choice to find my "true voice", buried deep within years of practiced "blocking" to accomplish the goal of meeting survival needs in my own life (providing income, child-rearing, maid, nurse, friend, mother, daughter, employee....). I ask myself, just how difficult is it to take a giant leap of faith, to listen keenly to a voice that has become so distant it is a soft whisper...to begin to hear it come closer and more audible?
Living Passion ....Discover what matters the most to you...passion is what you hunger to do, life is your blank canvas to create a masterpiece. Make the decision to choose in FAVOR of passion...opportunities that come your way, make a selection in the honor of your passion in your personal life and your work life.
Understand that we all have limitations, fears, moments of confusion and paths to take to arrive at chosen or preferred destinations...it takes time to heal, to transform ourselves to achieve these objectives. Rather than stall in your tracks...find the resources that will reveal the passions for your ideal life.
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