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Breathe Life Into Passion
Lest you lose yourself in the muddle of what could be
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho
When you find your ikigai, you find your calling for work and life. You manifest your calling into fruition, leading you to a more fulfilling state of being. It’s your bliss here on Earth, if you will.
What is ikigai?
It stemmed from Japanese origin in which you find your perfect type of passion, breathing it through your life and your work and your health. You find your sense of purpose and strive to create it into your work. You energize your complete joy in life because you’ve found your purpose, and you’re allowing it to fill your cup and thus others.
You may have hobbies in which you indulge from time to time. You may partake in events that bring you temporary happiness. But the purpose of your sole existence? Is it to teach? Heal? Sing? Create art? What’s your passion? And can that passion lead you to a long-lasting career in which you thrive?
You find your flow in life, according to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. You tap into that state of mind in…
