Passionate action can be an elusive beast. You won’t find it in your goals, in your actions, or in your life until you discover it’s source… inside yourself. Unfortunately, many people block the expression of their own passion because they are afraid that even if they find it, they’ll loose it in the next instant. This fear slowly eats away at any motivation to fulfill their dreams by projecting the illusion of safety within the glass walls of a closed heart. You can feel the truth is out there, but you just can’t touch it. Blocked from sadness and joy by the invisible walls of logic.
The only way out of this prison is through acceptance. Acceptance that you are an irrational being. You don’t need MORE control, you need MORE feeling. Hiding in a cloud of apathy doesn’t protect you from all the bad things in life, it damages your ability to find and feel passion and motivation toward your life and your goals. Whenever you live in fear from a possibly painful mistake, your world reflects your self-imposed limitations– Forcing you to fall deeper and deeper into apathy. Distancing you from your friends and family. Letting your dreams and hopes recede further and further from realization.
Take A Step Back
To find your passion again, you have to walk through the pain. You have to feel and accept it. Your Muse has been screaming inside those glass walls and wants out. The Muse wants to see the world, but can’t touch it. It wants to play a game, but can’t roll the dice. It wants to experience freedom, but it doesn’t even know what options are out there. Break the walls, feel the pain. Don’t limit your life by avoiding a moment of sadness when joy is on the horizon.
Start Believing
The universe will supply as many opportunities as you need to break out your Muse and rediscover passionate action. Unfortunately, many of these opportunities will seem painful, difficult, unsolvable. If you lean deeper into apathy, the world will keep opening the path to passion but only if you walk through the fire. First you must believe that there is something more on the other side. Once you believe and ACT with the knowledge that you want and deserve passion in your life, the journey to your dreams can begin again. It is better to risk getting wet if it rains on your parade than to skip the parade all together.
Don’t Bet Everything on a Whim
Unfortunately, you may have tried to break the Muse out of it’s glass walls before. And once the Muse was out, it ran amok. It tore holes in your life. It left your toys on the floor, possibly shattered into 1000 pieces. It left you overcome by emotional turmoil that took lots of time (and possibly therapy) to resolve. You don’t want to make that mistake again.
So don’t. Don’t let out the Muse and then abandon her to whatever strikes her fancy. Remember, the Muse is creative but erratic. The Muse helps you understand your dreams, and develop the goals that lead to passionate actions. But the Muse only rules over chaos. It accepts everything except the need to take purposeful, meaningful actions. You must let the analytical Daemon sort through the chaos and then make a choice to change. Giving all your power to the creative but chaotic Muse is just as insane as giving it all to the demanding but logical Daemon. You can’t abuse the truth or wall up your creativity.
You must find balance in a world that doesn’t always make sense.
A Conduit of Power
Passionate action is one of the powers of life. You can’t own passion, but you can use it. It flows through you and around you. However, if you are afraid to use it, you throw it away. Gather all the different pieces of your personality [whether you consider them as male/female (yinyang), or the Muse/Daemon/Voice/Heart/Observer (as I do)] and explore your options. Sit in the center of a room full of doors and look for the choice that has the most passion, the most joy, the most excitement for you.
If you look for passion and expect it to show up, you will find it!
The Key
When you have chosen a door; chosen a goal that excites your mind, body, and soul, then it’s time to take a second look. You’ll realize that the hall of doors is really a hall of mirrors. The door to passion is inside of you. All you have to do is open your heart and choose.
To withhold the passion that lives in your heart from the world is to let it burn you from the inside out. To share your passion is to set your path on fire.
Trust in your own journey and direct your passion into whatever goal you want. Passion will incite your actions and light the way but you must define your life’s purpose, you must define the path.
Accept your Reality
Balance & Trust Your Own Choices
Act with Passion
And Live in the World that you Create
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