How Inner Passion Can Bring You Back to Life

You may have recently hit a wall where your life has been utterly drained of any meaning. It may be a sudden reversal where you lost a relationship, a job or even a career. You no longer have the least bit of appetite to continue. You find yourself simply going through the motions. You are all burned out, squeezed up like a dried out lemon.

No need to despair. In the darkest hour, a silver lining always appears. You are sitting on, even squashing, an emotion, a hidden passion that could snap you out of it and bring you back to life.

How Inner Passion Can Awaken You

You may feel like a zombie, a member of the living dead. How could you ever again get excited about anything? You have quite simply been done in. Nobody loves you or wants you. You are all alone. You are through! You laid out your hand on the table and have had to fold your cards.

Hold on! Everyone knows someone or something that they can feel passionate about. When you go through a mid-life transition, the bottom seems to fall out, but life goes on. Your value system has been temporarily shaken, but a deeper you lies open for examination. What is most important to you? If you could change anything about the world, what would it be? What are you good at? What do you have a blast doing?

Even if it is something as simple as a Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, there is something you really like. If you think deeper, there is someone who always brings a smile to your face. Chances are you still love that person. He or she really made you feel at home. Think on that!

You Are Never Too Cynical for Passion

You may actually fear being passionate. The last thing you want to do is lose your head, look like a fool or be a fanatic. You fear that by feeling again, you will lose your rational faculties and be a basket case. If you find yourself deeply cynical, as many Millennials felt right after Bernie Sanders lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton, and Hillary, herself, lost the general election to Donald Trump. Do you know what a cynic actually is? A disillusioned idealist!

So what that you opened your heart to the wrong person or trusted someone who underperformed? Every day is a new day. Myriad possibilities await you. Maybe you, yourself, should run for President! At any rate, why wait for others? Get on with your life.

You can look deep within and find a quiet passion that you can nurture. Eventually, it will drive you to do the extraordinary. At first you breathe life into it, and eventually, it breathes life into you! After 9 / 11, I found that the one thing I wanted before I die is a world where no one again could kill others in the name of God. This led me to join up with a friend and write a book where I poured out my heart and soul, offering a new possibility to a new generation, Awaken Perfection: The Journey of Conscious Revelation.

You Can Be Both Passionate and Cool

You don’t need to be a fanatic or a fool. Think of someone like Steve Jobs, who went to India, then became a Zen Buddhist. He became a vegetarian and meditated two hours a day. He tinkered with some hardware and built a little company out of his garage that he called Apple. Steve poured religious devotion into his little boxes, making them practically breathe. The Macintosh and iMac were the world’s first living computers. The iPod, iPhone and iMac literally jumped out at people and took the world by storm.

You can watch Steve Jobs pitch Apple on YouTube. Nobody ever pitched the way he did. Totally cool, totally hip and deeply passionate. He created the greatest second act in the history of business. He left behind the most valuable company in the world. People who never met him in person cried at his passing.

You, like Steve Jobs, can be both passionate and cool. Think of a Zen Buddhist priest with his meditation stick and mind-boggling koans. He has a positive passion. He is fully alive at every moment. Yet he moves as gracefully as an Angora cat.

You Can Be Both Balanced and Passionate

You can develop your own “magnificent obsession,” yet still smell the roses and have a life. When people have their own mission, vision and message, and yet still know how to listen deeply, they are attractive, even compelling to others.

Think of Sir Richard Branson, who started out with a Rock N’ Roll gig, and ended up, not only with Virgin Airlines, but with several hundred other business. Yet Richard works hard and plays hard. He even has his own private island as an ecological sanctuary. Richard’s next big project is Virgin Galactic. He wants to be the world’s first space tourist, and he is willing to bet that dozens of others will join him.

“Enthusiasm” is a sister-word to passion. It literally means to be “filled with God.” It is a divine spark that can bring anyone back to life. Only when you are fully alive can you go and get a life. The right kind of enthusiasm, the right kind of passion, will actually take you deep into the heart of life, rather than hold you to the daily grind.

It’s Never Too Late (Charles Dickens’s story)

Hollywood recently gave us The Man Who Invented Christmas, the story behind the masterpiece, A Christmas Carol. This film portrays the great English novelist, Charles Dickens, midcareer suffering from acute writer’s block, having written three flops in a row. He is suffering severe financial problems and his publishers are losing all patience with him.

Charles decides to write a satire on a mean, despicable miser who detests holidays, cares nothing for other people and is emotionally shut down. All the while, he is unconsciously writing about himself. Charles is giving his family hell for no reason, even though his parents, his wife and his children are utterly loving to him.

Charles tries the story out on a little girl who immediately objects. You can’t write off Ebenezer Scrooge just like that. Everybody deserves a second chance. Nobody is past reform. Charles reflects back on his childhood where he worked in a sweatshop. He faced the demons of his own past and realized that life is precious. So he then creates the ghosts of Christmas Past, and Christmas Yet to Come. They are so terrifying that both Charles Dickens and his character, Scrooge, suddenly repent, and totally embrace Christmas, and life itself.

No longer did Charles Dickens take life for granted, and no longer should you. Life is precious. Life is a gift. And life deserves you as a gift to make the world a better place. If you open up even a crack to this, life will take on an unimaginable luster, and you will again be glad to be alive!

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