Originally I was going to post a short journey/meditation, but after a conversation with my friend K2 yesterday, it seemed like a good time to explore the path of passion a few steps further (it's still a journey!).
Rumi: let the beauty you love be what you do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
This is absolutely one of my favorite observations. Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a million paths to Source (actually, 6 billion and counting)...and THAT is all that is required of you. THAT is where your passion leads--to being so connected with Source that everything else falls into place. It is, for most of us, a life-long journey just making our way to where we are aware of the connection once in a while. Your particular path--your passion--is to walk as closely to Source as you are aware. To make/have/live in as many enlightened moments as possible.
For a lot of us, those moments are rare. For a lot of us, we don't put that name to them--we're just living what makes the most sense to us and we feel good about it. Picasso may not have been aware that he connected to the divine every time he put brush to paint, but do you think he was painting because he wanted to be doing something else?
Let the beauty you love be what you do...bring a sense of sacred to the things that matter most to you. Your grand passion might be raising a child to be a compassionate warrior; it might be raising yourself to be one. It might be art, or music, or making sure the world-as-we-know-it runs smoothly and that your pleasure is showing others how to have fun.
The path is the practice.
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” (Rumi)
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