What is passion?

What is passion?

 

Some define it as a strong feeling or emotion - a trait of being intensely emotional

..an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for anything.

It is all about having a BURNING DESIRE for something - to learn a skill, to find the ideal partner, to start a business, to help other people..

Whatever it is we should all find what we are passionate about. We should find what our BURNING DESIRE in our life is.

Why?

Because we probably would have found the reason why we came here to Earth...

..our life's purpose.

When you love what you do with all your heart you are one with your higher self. When you fall in love with an idea it becomes your passion. It is the Devine Operation expressing itself through you.

You are creating for yourself and for others. Your burning desire will benefit everyone since you love it so much. It is an expression from the inner world like Thomas Troward so beautifully put it:

My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before

Caught up in the Rat Race

Way too many people are caught up in the Rat Race and are too busy to ever finding their true passion.

People are brought up believing that we should go to school, study hard, find suitable work and work hard until we retired. Then we finally can fulfill our dreams - do the things we love all the time. However by that time some people have died, others have lost their health and some have lost the appetite for life.

As such we should all be encouraged to find what we truly love to do early on in life. We must find our passion. However we are not being encouraged. Instead most people are following the recipe that get us caught up in the rat race.

How many people wake up to their alarm clocks to go to work only to spend yet another day earning money doing something they don«t love 100%?

We should not go to work to earn money - we should go to work because we love it.

Unfortunately most people do not love their work. They do it for the money - to pay off the mortgages, to pay the bills, to support their families.

Its understandable because no-one told them that they should follow their passion - no-one encouraged them to pursue what they really love doing - to follow their passion.

Instead most people are brought up to follow the "rat race recipe". Get yourself a decent education so you can earn some good money or get yourself a job to pay for the bills. Get a flat and a house and pay off the mortgage in 20 year back payment plan.

When you ask people if they really would like to do something else than what they currently do now - the majority say yes.

Just ask colleagues where you work. If they won 10 millions dollars in the lottery would they still be working at the same place having the same job and doing the same work?

We all came here to find our life«s purpose - to find our passion which will help ourselves and everyone we get in contact with.

Some people just feel deep inside that they should follow what they truly love from an early age on. They just know it or feel it is the right thing to do.

Steve Jobs and passion

One such person is Steve Jobs - Co-founder of Apple.

In 2005 he held a GREAT speech at Commencement Day at Stanford University. Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, he urged graduates to pursue their dreams...

In his speech he is sharing with us 3 stories from his life. His key message is:

Follow your curiosity, your intuition, your heart - your dreams..and trust that it will work out.

In the video-clip we hear Steve Jobs talking about trust:

you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma whatever..because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path - and that will make all the difference

Larry Page and dreams

Another very successful person who has followed his dream and his passion is the Google founder Larry Page.

May 2nd 2009 he held a powerful speech at the Commencement Day at University of Michigan.

In the video below you will hear him talking about grabbing those great dreams that comes to you.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning?

Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and......

I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work. Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web - he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me. The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn't even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

When you find your passion - your life's purpose - trust the universe to help you out and it will.
We are all part of a universe where everything has its own vibrational frequency and when you love what your are doing you are sending out a very powerful signal and the universe will respond.
People who have a passion do succeed since they love what they do - they can't stop thinking about their passion.It is part of them day and night - it«s who they are - and what they are all about.
Nothing can stand in their way. They never quit because they know that they will succeed if they keep at it - they have the DESIRE, the PERSISTENCE and they TAKE ACTION because they love what they do. They want things to work out. They are creating for themselves and for others and this is what being here is all about.