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You Are the Source of Passion
Although most of us consider ourselves fortunate if we can still feel passion about anything as we grow older, feeling passion for your work or politics or even sex is not the same as having a passion for life.
It is not just that life is bigger than work, politics, or sex. Shakti is life itself; it is present in every rhythmic pulse of existence. A passion for life implies that you are passion; it is in your very being. Therefore the most natural way to be is passionate; the slow ebbing of passion is unnatural.
If you mourn the fading of passion, realize that nothing endures on the surface of life, where change is the only constant. Things come and go, people come and go, and although they once stoked the fires of enthusiasm, eventually the temperature cools.
The greatest waste is to extend passion on needs and drives that are selfish and without spirit. Among these wastes would be material accumulation, greed, love of money and power for their own sake, loveless sexual activity, and obsession. Shakti is the raw ore of life, waiting to be refined and shaped.
Insights about passion, therefore, all have to do with sustaining divine love in yourself and transmuting it in your relationship to love and union.
The source of passion is within yourself. When passion wanes it must be rekindled at its source.
Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997).
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add your comment »I think my passion for life has become deeper as I have grown older too.For it is with my life experiences that I can now understand the depths of the feelings of love and happiness that I now possess but was denied as a child
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What if your passion is the futility of war and nationalistic territoriality that causes people to demonize and attack others and to try and project power all around the world and dominate economically and militarily as a form of male intimidation and possession of women worldwide as a matter of right as opposed to equality and sharing but rather as expression of superiority and to intimidate the foreign males into a lack of must like elephants!!!
What if your passion tells you these ancient instincts tied to conceptual models that rationalize the dehumanization of other could well lead us to be the cause of our own extinction if we don't wake up to these dangers all related to the attempt to control and suppress sexual passion that binds established religion and nationalism together.
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They have said it all, what more can i say.....
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I love this! It is just this passion and methodology of living, by being, that we can have success in any avenue we focus on! I am learning that that "raw ore of life" is kindled in so many ways, on so many levels, and envelopes me with such a satisfying layer of security and joy - just as a warm glowing ore would! Thanks!
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Thank You Deepak I love passion as we are passion its self, always there is so much hope and strength in passion, I think that Passion is my favorite word~!! Thank You for sharing all your insight and passion too.
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I just reread this great book for the 3rd time in 10 years. It always brings me back to spirit and that passion for life! The never ending Hope. It is a true reading inspiration. Thank you again Deepak
I love how yielding to spirit curbs the ego.......and is so liberating.
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Thankfully, my passion for life never leaves me for too long. The will to live and discover more ....whats behind the door...the light shining in....it lives.Without wanting it, it is just there. I am grateful to experience this in my life.
Thank you Deepak for this wonderful post.
How do you rekindle the passion for life when the light goes out? Light a candle or go out into nature and be inspired anew ...this works for me when there is low tide :-)
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Thank you for confirming what my spirit knows to be true and as I mature, I can feel the vastness and preciousness of life, I will focus on rekindling my passions for life.
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