Passion
Passion comes from the heart and is manifest as optimism, excitement,
emotional connection, determination. It fires unrelenting drive. Enthusiasm is
deeply rooted in the power of choice rather than circumstances. Enthusiasts
believe that the best way to predict the future is to create it. In fact,
enthusiasm becomes a moral imperative, making the person part of the solution
rather than part of the problem of feeling essentially hopeless and helpless.
In the words of Aristotle “where talents and the needs of the world cross,
therein lies your vocation”. We could say, therein lies your passion. Your
voice”- that which energizes your life and gives you your drive. It is the fuel
at the heart of vision and discipline. It keeps you at it when everything else
may say quit. When life, work, play and love all revolve around the same thing,
you’ve got passion!
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your
unique talents and your special role and purpose in the world. It is essential
to know yourself before you decide what work you want to do. This Greek
philosophy: “know yourself, control yourself, and give yourself “is exquisitely
sequenced. One’s talent, one’s mission or role in is usually detected more than
it is invented
The great contributors in life are those who though afraid
of the knock at the door, still answer it. courage is the essence of passion,
and is as Harold B. Lee said” the quality of every virtue acting at its highest
testing point.”
There is a common misconception that a person’s skill is
their talent. Skills however are not talents. Talents on the other hand require
skills. People can have skills and knowledge in areas where their talents do
not lie. If they have a job that requires their skills but not tier talents,
organizations will never tap into their passion or voice they’ll go through the
motions, but this will only make them appear to need external supervision and motivation.
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job,
they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better
than anyone could ever manage them. “Their fire comes from within, not from
without. Their motivation is internal, not external; just think about the times
when you were passionate about a project, something, that was so compelling and
absorbing that you could hardly think of anything else. Did you need to managed
or supervised? Of course not; the thought of being told when and how to do it
would have been insulting. When you give
yourself to work that brings together a need, your talent and your passion,
power will be unlocked.
Conscience
Conscience is a universal phenomenon. The spiritual or moral
nature of people is also independent of religion or of any particular religious
approach, culture, geography, nationality or race. Yet all of the enduring major
religious traditions of the world are unified when it comes to certain basic
underlying principles or values.
Conscience is the moral law within. It is the overlapping of moral law
and behavior. Many believe that it is the voice of God to his children. Some
people may not share this belief but they recognize that there is an innate
sense of fairness and justice, an innate sense of right and wrong, of what is
kind and what is unkind, o what contributes and what detracts, of what
beautifies and what destroys, of what is true and what is false. Admittedly,
culture translates this moral sense into kinds of practices and words, but this
translation does not negate the underlying sense of right and wrong.
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