Product Description
"Are you tired of living a boring, routine life without any faith or hope in facing the future? Are you going through the motions without any pep or zest for life looking dull, drained, listless and unhappy? Do you treat your family, friends, loved ones, co-workers in a mechanical way? Do you feel hopeless or helpless at times? Do you feel squeezed between your finitude and your brokenness? Passionate people are armored with conviction, ardor, enthusiasm, zeal for a cause, ideal or goal. They are ready to venture into new frontiers no matter how challenging or uncomfortable they are. They are not afraid to leave their comfort zones and face some harsh realities. They willingly accept insecurity rather than security of one's turf living in solidarity with the poor and the outcasts. They become bridge builders by immersing themselves into the various cultures they encounter. They repair divisions in our fragmented world inspired by St. Paul's words, ""The love of Christ impels us"" (2 Cor 5:14). Passionate people don't back peddle when they confront obstacles or injustices like racism, militarism, immigration, or HIV/AIDS. They feel that the impossible can become possible. They do not allow themselves to be engulfed in the trenches of grief, and are not afraid to show the subterranean joy within them. The worst of times can be seen as the best of times when seen through the lens of a passionate person. You need to reflect on what you are passionate about, what tugs at your heart, what inspires you? When you love and enjoy what you are doing with a passion you ordinarily will succeed. You need to find your values and convictions, then marry them to what you feel inside. So put on your dancing shoes, as Meister Eckhart urges, and assume your urgent responsibilities becoming a passionate person."