Today I want to share some thoughts on the subject of passion.
Do you know how an experienced stone sculptor finds out whether the stone they want to work on is “true?” They bang on it forcefully with a hammer! If it gives off a dull tone, it means the stone has a fault running through it, and therefore it will crack apart when it is worked on. But if it gives off a clear “ring” which hangs in the air for a moment, that means the stone is true and has integrity, and most importantly, it will hold up under repeated blows.
One of the best ways to find out whether your passions are true, is to form the habit of ‘tuning in’ and listening with what Saint Benedict called “the ear of the heart”. It is the CORE of what spiritual traditions refer to as discernment or clarifying your calling.
If you are only doing things in life which other people want you to, or because it is their vision and not yours, then one day you will hear in your inner being that “dull” tone that the sculpture hears when he bangs firmly on a faulty stone.
This is something you need to take notice of.
Today I encourage you to become more aware of your own “inner ear of the heart” – the passions that are true for YOU. Other people’s sculpturing stones (passions) may be true for them, but you weren’t created to replicate theirs, you need to know and pursue your own.
How do you discover what your own true passions are?
That’s a question I will answer in another blog.
