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One of the things that I am passionate about is living with passion!
Passion can mean different things to people but one thing that most people understand about passion is that it has a strong energy or force about it. When that energy is channeled in loving ways, it can result in spectacular feats and achievements. When it is channeled in fear-driven ways, it can be disastrous, hence the expression ‘crimes of passion‘, for instance.
Our most lofty dreams and ideals are the mental representations of the energy of passion that we are each so abundantly blessed with. When we give up on our dreams, we stem the natural flow of this wondrous energy.
So many of us have given up on our dreams and ideals relegating them to the dungeons of ‘impossible‘ or ‘impractical’. Yet, how we admire and look longingly on those who have been faithful to their dreams and ideals. How we secretly wish we could be like them.
But, just as we leave a theater, having succumbed to the story on the screen, having lived for an hour or so, the life of the protagonist or ‘hero’, having endured with them their crashes and rejoiced over their triumphs, we slink away from the dazzling glow of our off-screen dreamers and achievers telling ourselves ‘That could never be me’.
Like it or not, passion is your life blood. Like it or not, dreaming is your nature. Like it or not, you can. Question is, do you want to?
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion but realities of intellect from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
William Blake
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Awakening to our Greatness!
