passion

What is My Purpose?

June 21, 2011

Ram Dass, in his book Paths to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita, pushes me beyond my comfort zone.  He is hitting a little too close to home. He advises me to listen for my Dharma, and then do it wholeheartedly without attachment.  Dharma is simply one’s calling, duty, purpose, or “passion”. What is my purpose? [...]

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3-Steps to Reach Goals

March 31, 2011

I made commitments at the beginning of the year to reach goals in my life–a couple of specific and important goals.  I made the commitments to reach these goals with great intention and passion, but as we all know, intention and passion is only the key that turns the ignition. In addition to the key, [...]

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Vision Requires Practice

January 3, 2011

“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”  Mark Twain Like many folks, I use the [...]

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Handling a Vision

December 15, 2010

I am excited about a vision that has been taking form in me recently.  It’s just beginning to gel.  I have much energy for this vision, but I am in no way organized around it and it isn’t even fully formed.  I wish someone would swoop in and organize all my thoughts and ideas for [...]

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Passion and the Saboteur

December 13, 2010

You can feel the passion flowing through your veins as you do what is impossible and you pull it off, because you want to. –from the song “Halo” by Solovox Passion has been flowing through my veins lately.  I am beginning to get a vision for what I want to unfold in my life in [...]

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A Strange Passion

October 6, 2010

“A strange passion is moving in my head.  My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky.  Every part of me goes in different directions.  Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”  Rumi Related Posts:Wild and FreeThe Good, The True, The BeautifulCultivating Space

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Liberated from Drama

August 25, 2010

“To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.” Ken Keyes Jr. When I look back on the drama in my life, it looks different from when I was consumed by it.  I can see how I contributed to most of it, at least since I’ve been an adult.  As a child, I [...]

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The Practice of Discipline

July 7, 2010

The Kingfisher dove suddenly from the tall pine.  I heard his chatter just before he launched.  I looked up to witness the bird tumble toward the water, submerge for a split second, then rise with ease.  He plunged with resolve and precision.  I had been glancing up at him from my float while he sat [...]

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Strength in Vulnerability

June 24, 2010

I see a vulnerability and tenderness in this damselfly.  I cannot imagine how it survives for even a day.  It seems to me that the wind, alone, would tumble her to her death at first gust.  Yet this little creature flits about with all the confidence and strength of a Goliath, and the courage and [...]

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