What does passion mean for you? Really?
What if you were outcast from a majority culture? Told that God, or the gods, had cursed you and publically rejected?
This has been the experience of a dear friend who passionately cared for orphans she bought into her home.
Yet, now struggling to even be sure of a roof over her head, she remains true to her heart felt passionate desire to serve.
The passion of success and romantic love are intimately entwined.
“Between positively and negatively charged particles is a center point of light. Between positively and negatively charged emotions is the center point of love” wrote John Demartini.
“The center point is what every human being already is, yet elusively still seeks. True love is our ultimate objective, whether we’re aware of it or not.”
Does that sound a little too mystical to you? Is love the reuniting of soul mates? Or are we simply driven by evolutionary forces?
How can the power of romantic passion drive us to a more fulfilling life?
“It is a true task of a truly modern mind to endure both the spiritual and practical as the framework for the life” wrote Jungian analyst Robert Johnson.
People have tried to balance the psyches masculine and feminine dimensions with a family oriented focus. It is found in Hinduism, in Torah and Quran, and in Taoism to the Hawaiian Islands.
Among them we can found the happiest, humblest and most passionately spiritual people. Sadly, there are also the most villainous.
I recently read an interesting quote from Michael J Fox, who has not hidden his Parkinson’s Disease. He calls the disease a gift.
“Once you trash the idea of ego and vanity and concentrate on what you actually do, it is hugely feeing” he said. “If you live long enough, something bad will happen to you” he said “you can see it as a calamity or you can own it and absorb it and accept it.”
As time passes you will then find the power in it – along with your passion and values – to make it an opportunity.
The power comes from integrating the fighting fragments of our soul and loving and accepting them.
Then we can truly love others.
It requires that you know your own and your partners hierarchy of values. When I know what drives my lover and I find a way to satisfy her she will happily give me all I desire in return.
To do this passionately, I must find a way to fulfill her values while also fulfilling my own.
Next week Mindfreak will be revealing a process to achieve that very end.
In the mean time, I invite you to review The Purpose of Loves Contradictions.
