The time of the season is here when we have to sign up our kids for summer camp again, and I was reminded of this dreadful picture I once saw that tried advertising a camp by showing a picture of a teenage girl with a lifeless expression pretending to bite into a hook that a bored middle-aged man was holding up for her. As you can imagine, I didn't sign my kids up for this one.
The spiritual mensch flows with the universe moment by moment and doesn't stop anywhere since the tune is changing all the time. When you truly exchange yourself with somebody you care about you will notice this ongoing flow. There is no set agenda and there is no game plan. The difference between passion and enthusiasm is subtle, but it can boil down to the difference between an obsession and serenity. You are on fire in both cases, but you dance to your own tune in the former case, while you are operating in harmony with the universe in the latter.
You have to follow your passions, that's your life mission statement, but understanding the different feel of the two states can at least help you to find that creative healing opportunity to launch you on your spiritual path. Yes, your passion hooks you, but if you are truly putting your best foot forward, the Tao will find a creative way to help yourself disentangling yourself. The fire that consumes you will slowly die down that way. As you take your hand out of the fire and will instead jumpstart that eternal flame that burns inside you.
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