I enjoy a good sermon when it is brimming with passion. People who show their passion remind me to follow mine. Your insight has helped me beyond my expectations. When people ask about anthropology i tell them the exact same thing. past and present. I believe now, me stumbling across this forum is by more than chance. Now that fast money jobs are not what i want. I am having them thrown at me. But the things i have going now are far too rare to give up. My biggest problem is procrastination. I am afraid to fail at something i really love. but i have overcome that and every force in my life seems to be supporting it. You are right, I (my brain) am/is right. It is time. I constantly seek out reassurance and i failed to realize my brain has been giving it to me nightly. haha. I had heard that every part of your dream is an aspect of you, and had forgotten it. now i am remembering four or five dreams a night, and all are inspiring with the new insight.

i know you are probably already assured in what you do, but i'm going to tell you anyway. dont quit doing what you do. you are a teacher, you do not regurgitate dream symbols you read everywhere, you teach how to listen to yourself. and that is just as important as teaching a man to fish.

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Thanks Lindsey. Your inspiration is refreshing and it provides support for my own. I know you will follow through with the anthropology path because I believe you understand that it is the passion we feel in out souls that ultimately provides meaning in life. While others focus on the outer material world, those who realize that it comes within are the ones who find the greatest happiness in life. Having lived 63 years worth of experience I have been on the 'extremes' of both. The outer is fleeting at best, always needing new 'material' to survive. With the inner path you discover that one thing that never gets old, is always rewarding and with its support system from nature you receive all the material worth that is needed. Not to say life will be perfect, it can never be {the first Buddhist saying, 'life is all sorrowful'}. But even with that you realize the short time we are here is best spent doing what we were meant to do. Everyone is different but everyone has a 'passion'. As long as it is creative and spiritual {not religious] then there will be success. As my mentor stated, a quote that continues to inspire me:

“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have one before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

It is important to note that following one's bliss, as Campbell saw it, isn't merely a matter of doing whatever you like, and certainly not doing simply as you are told. It is a matter of identifying that pursuit which you are truly passionate about and attempting to give yourself absolutely to it. In so doing, you will find your fullest potential and serve your community to the greatest possible extent.



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