Our Passion Is Our True Calling

Our minds are our greatest tools. We can create anything if we just believe. First in ourselves and then in our power to create our heart-felt desires. We have to stop waiting for life to happen to us and make it happen for us. It starts with passion. The word "passion," derived from Latin passion, means an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The Greek asked only one question when a man died, did he have passion?

What we are passionate about is what drives us through our lives and although it may change; it is always present. For some it is a mere whisper while for others a trumpeting cry. Perhaps we have not really thought about what we are passionate about. If not, now is the time to begin. There was an old proverb about a man who was working in his garden when a voice spoke from the heavens. The voice told the man he had only 24 hours to live so to use the time wisely. The man continued to work in his garden. A little later a neighbor was walking by and he asked the man how he was doing. The man told his neighbor of the voice and its prediction. The neighbor in shock looked at the man and asked " what are you going to do with that time my friend?" The man calmly answered "I am already doing it." Our passion does not have to be grandiose, it can be as simple as tending to our gardens. Passion is the underpinning of our joy and without it, we are left like a dingy floating aimlessly in open waters.

Many struggle daily with the existential question, what is my purpose? Why not ask what is my passion? Why must we feel as if we are here to earn our happiness? Our joy or passion is the gift we already have earned. It is our personal relevance which is the key to our purpose and ultimate happiness. Perhaps the greatest poverty of all is going through life as though we have never found our purpose, when our purpose all along was simply to find our passion and live it. There are really only two things we must master in our lifetimes to find true happiness- be of service to others as much as we possibly can and polish our inner being to its fullest radiance. That means we must take the time to ask ourselves what am I passionate about and what brings me the greatest joy. Why waste another moment....start asking. Namaste.