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One thing I’ve discovered on my life journey is that passions come and go. At certain times of your life you can be so passionate about a person, a sport or a life goal and then years, or sometimes months later you wonder why it was ever important to you.
I’ve been passionate about so many things and for the time that passion remained I was all in. I’d bore people talking about that thing. I’d indulge myself doing that thing. I’d look for others I could do those things with.
Eventually, the passion waned. It tends to do that if you’re on a spiritual path. As you begin to drop identification with the stories of the ego, then all the things the ego is passionate about no longer seem that interesting.
For example, I used to be passionate about relationships. How could I get one, stay in one, find a new one? What did I need to change about myself or the other person to make it work? Was I attractive enough to attract that person? Were they attractive enough to me? All of the nonsense we engage in when determining who our partner will/should, be.
I became much less passionate over time. Once I started to see that I needed my relationships to have purpose more than passion, everything changed. Not just our shared everyday goals, but a sense of deep purpose flowing through our connection.
Why are we together beyond the physical or material?
How do we deepen each other’s experience of life?
What kind of conversations do we engage in?
Can we belly laugh together just as easily whether it’s deep or inane?
Do I feel I’m deepening on my path because of our connection?
Am I enhancing your deepening?
These questions arose and never left.
A sense of purpose and feelings of purpose, tend to remain the same. I can now look back and see that’s what I was searching for even in my earlier years; meaning and purpose. Where’s the purpose, the deeper meaning in this? I was always seeking to answer this question.
Similarly, in my creative expression, I can now see that this was the question that flowed through all my creations. Those creations may have seemed more superficial at the time, but I recognise from my current vantage point that I was always looking for the true meaning of things.
Our purpose rises up from within without our choosing. It permeates everything we do. It impacts how we view the world. How we express that purpose can evolve over time, but the seed of purpose remains pure and true.
Passions come and go. Purpose remains and deepens as time passes.
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