Your passport to freedom and to love
In his book, "The Way to Love", Jesuit priest Anthony De Mello gives advice we'd all be wise to embrace.
"You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not.
How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love."
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Slipstream
Wise words indeed.
Evangel
I wholeheartedly agree with his words. I am an artist at heart and feel most free when I can paint. It's always been this way with me. It doesn't matter what someone thinks about my work. It's in the doing that liberates and exhilarates me.
Sanatana
I can count quite a few activities that I try to engage in on a daily basis. Those things bring meaning and joy to my life. Most people live life as if by rote and don't take the time to engage in the things, however small, that brings them joy.