You need passion. You need this force that is expressed positively, that exists in affirmation as opposed to the simple privation of conflict or fear or anxiety. We survive without passion. But the question is how do we want to fill during this journey of consciousness? As you wake up, could there be a force that pulls you out of bed effortlessly? Could it be a thing for which your only influence is simply to get out of its way, to keep your mind out of it? Without it, life is lacking one of its qualities which is natureness. Isn't passion a trait of nature?
So what do we mean by passion? Passion is pure energy. Passion is pure sincerity. Passion is effortless. Passion is a lasting source of energy, action, ideas. Passion is necessity. Passion is a source of action that does not require volition. It is natural. It is doubtless. It is nature.
It is something that is really hard to come by because all humans obsess over achievement, gains and accolades. All men want the world. So the environment is against passion. The culture is against passion. A mind that demands more, cannot let passion be.
So when one demands passion to enter one's life, one doesn't know exactly what is the nature of the demand. One doesn't see the world one lives in. One doesn't know passion. One doesn't recognize that beliefs we hold sacred are the exact opposite of passion. One doesn't see that one's most precious wish for his life is precisely the antithesis of passion—the wish to be a success, the wish to be something, the wish to be someone. These beliefs are sacred to humans. These beliefs are a projection on the world's opinion. It is not a belief that starts and ends within a human being. It is a belief that needs the world and precisely the world's recognition. And these belief make no sense without the world. When in fact passion begins and ends with a human being. You cannot have the world and have passion.
To most of us everything is work. Everything requires effort. Passion is a never-ending flame and it requires certain conditions to burn. The world is a corrupting force. The world burdens 100 times more than it frees. One does not want passion, one wants to be respectable. One does not want passion, one wants the security and continuity of the world.
We don't see the ways of the world. Our ways and our sacred beliefs stand squarely in the way of passion. The world is a ocean of carbon copies. Passion is nature. Nature does not make copies. Only a place of deep understanding can allow passion to truly emerge. The world or passion? The self or passion? Beliefs or passion?. When one demands passion, it is nature that is called upon. How can nature enter our lives when everything we care about is to be part of the world?
With the same dreams, the same beliefs, with the same lives, with the same fears, with the same culture, with the same anxiety, we are all copies.
When we casually demand passion to enter our life, we do not know what we ask for. Passion in the culture is not passion. How many athletes, artists, or creators live with something they once called their passion and live in a prison? They play the same way as others. They practice the same. They write the same books. They play the same music.
So passion is not a vocational job. Passion is an understanding for what the world is and what the world's influence is on a human being. Passion is when other things are not. The demands for an outcome. The requirement to be approved. The fear of being liked. These influences are worldly. Passion is not worldly. It is not transactional. It is highly personal. Where in nature is there a transaction? There is symbiosis.
So passion needs first an understanding of what passion is not. Passion needs symbiosis with what is. It needs to understand how we live because it is our most direct reality. And the more one contemplates, the more one feels the courage to stand alone.
It is truly wild to consider how frequently we notice the inept ways of the world, and how attached we remain to the world. Until one sees the emergence of necessity within himself to examine his ways, one does not know the life he has. One can live without passion and die a copy. And one can explore the path of his unique and natural energy for the only sake of finding out. No one will be remembered. But how does one want to feel during this time? Sacred beliefs need to be understood as to elicit what keeps us terrorized to be alone on our path. Nothing can be forced. The urge to solve and get to a result is one of the many things that doesn't let you look and possibly understand. The very context from which you demand to fix the lack of passion in your life is a product of sacred belief you are yet to understand.
We truly are nature's creation. The problems we have are not natural. Maybe if we learn to see how we stand in our own way, we might live a life nature intended for us to have. And by way of subtraction, by way of understanding, one finds his way back. And maybe passion can be a reality on the edge of life.