Passion and Self-Reliance

Passion and Self-Reliance

Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength. For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so.

That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination.

When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self, for Self alone is non-changing.

In Truth, there is neither reliance nor passion. In one state, you can either be passionate or you can be self-reliant. But in an elevated state of consciousness, you can be neither, or both!
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Think It Over

Seek the council of men, who will tell you the truth about yourself, even it hurts you to hear it.

Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

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You cannot become power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become good enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
-Napoleon Hill Author of “Law of Success”

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ASK NOT WHAT THIS WORLD CAN DO FOR YOU BUT, RATHER, WHAT YOU CAN DO TO THIS WORLD. MAKE SERVICE AN IMPORTANT GOAL IN YOUR LIFE. IT IS A MOST FULFILLING INVESTMENT OF TIME. REMEMBER IN THE TWILIGHT OF YOUR LIFE, WHEN ALL SAID AND DONE, THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE BOILS DOWN TO THE QUALITY OF YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO OTHERS. LEAVE A RICH LEGACY FOR THOSE AROUND YOU TO SAVOR.
- Anonymous

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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.”
-Dr. Robert Goddard

Om Namah Shivay