Passion Is… {RAOKA}

February Theme: Passion

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”~ Hebbel quotes (German Poet and Dramatist, 1813-1863)~

Focusing on passion this month has so intuitively opened doors for my personal growth…doors I never thought really existed. While I explored each and every door and enjoyed what I learned, I also realized how much passion is part of all our lives. More so, how much we all need to make passion a part of our life to be happy and successful. So, below I give you my thoughts on what Passion Is….

Passion is the Index of life

Whether you are an ordinary person or a celebrity, you can do without passion only if you can do without life because it is passion alone that determines the extent to which you are alive.
People say every cigarette reduces your life span by an hour. That could indeed be true. But truer is the fact that an hour spent doing something unwillingly has already subtracted an hour from your life. Life is not a collection of days you manage to live through, but of ‘todays’ that you live passionately to the hilt.
People who lack passion feel that if they could get this promotion, or that kind of a bank balance or get rid of some health problem, they will be happy. But the fact is that those who do eventually get what they want  have forgotten what happiness is and usually end up with more problems that a lifetime of happiness. We human beings, like any piece of iron, can propose to finish ourselves in two ways: we may rust ourselves out or we may simply wear ourselves out. Rust looks ugly; wearing out brings shine!

Passion is the Value of life

How valuable would diamonds be, if they were as common as pebbles on the road? Their value is only because they are rare and need the ceaseless effort required to mine and cut them to shape. Value of your own life, in a similar way, comes not from your achievements, but from the quality of passion with which you are still making ceaseless efforts today to make it shine further. Painters, scientists, inventors, authors and others who are creatively living their lives are cut off from thoughts of any monetary concerns, like “how much will this fetch me?” or “is it worth the royalty I am going to eventually earn?” The mind is instead focused on enjoying the excitement of responding to the challenge at hand.
The original deal was, that James Cameron, was to receive an $11.5 million fee for his role as writer, director and producer of the movie, Titanic. However, as costs for Titanic soared out of control to more than $200 million—twice its original budget, not ready to compromise with his passionate vision, he volunteered to forgo most of his fees and profit-participation except for his $1.5 million writer’s fee. Cameron also agreed to forgo half of his profit-participation on the next movie he would make for Fox.
Overjoyed with the success of the movie, the two studios—Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and News Corp’s Twentieth Century Fox that produced the film—later agreed to jointly restore Cameron’s original deal. He eventually ended up earning much more than his original deal!
Stephen Hawking, in spite of nature denying him the use of his physical body, the author of the seminal book, A Brief History of Time, is considered the most important theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. So severely handicapped is his body that he takes eight to 15 minutes to compose his answers to audience’s questions by using a computer cursor with his crippled right hand, spelling out each word letter by letter.
The world is over flowing with examples of people who have kept the flame of passion alive against all odds.

Passion is Fuel for fulfillment

Anyone who finds circumstances unfavorable, has in fact only found what he has all along been looking for—even though only subconsciously. Those who find pursuing meaningful goals difficult, settle for the next best—they pursue nice and convincing excuses. And what you look for usually finds you before you can find it. If you focus on results, you achieve them; if you focus on having explanations for failures, that is precisely what you will find. However, people pursuing their goals rarely notice any ‘unfavourable circumstances’ on their way. The goals that burst forth from your soul, if noticed with intense feelings, pull you towards them the way a rubber band pulls a loose object towards the fixed end on being released.

Passion is the Secret of physical and spiritual fitness

The word ‘inspiration’ means ‘to be one with the spirit’, and the word ‘enthusiasm’ composed of the two roots ‘en’ + ‘theos’, means ‘to be one with God’. Passion both, stems from, and causes spiritual fitness. Lack of passion therefore stems from spiritual poverty and can be overcome by placing everything you do in the wider context of meaning, values and ethics. And passion, in turn, helps you search for the deeper meaning in everything you do. It is a chain reaction that once triggered, feeds on itself and goes on growing bigger and bigger progressively.
With passion, blood finds new joy in circulation, mind receives more oxygen, alertness level touches a new high, each cell of the body displays happiness and gives rise to a more tolerant and caring attitude. Sleep deepens, helping the body to repair its worn out cells, and diseases suddenly find themselves out of place in any part of the body. Passion is therefore the most precious and vital tonic that you alone can produce for your body, and that too free of cost!

Discover and live your passion! This is the only thing you are here for.

And, what’s my passion??? To help YOU in whatever way I can.
I do hope this article on passion has somewhat reignited your passion or atleast has nudged you to look deeper to find and sustain your own passions.

Next Week: “Cues for developing passion”

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NOTE: What is RAOKA? Random Acts of Kick Arse is a movement to bring more of {a monthly theme} into our lives, and the lives of those around us. This awesome movement was initiated by Sami from Life, Laughs and Lemmings.  RAOKA Logo courtesy of Melissa from Operation NICE.
The theme for March is “Laughter” (as chosen by Lori).
If you would like to join this movement please contact Lori@Jane Be Nimble on her blog for further details.
Other awesome RAOKA Crusaders: Sami@Life, Laughs and Lemmings; Lori@Jane Be Nimble; Dani@Positively Present; Lance@The Jungle of Life; Gayze@Gazehound’s Animal Communication; Jannie@Janni Funster’s Blog;

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