A Passion for Everything ( 25.April.2006)

For most of us, passion is employed only with regard to one thing, sex; or yousuffer passionately and try to resolve that suffering. But I am using the wordpassion in the sense of a state of mind, a state of being, a state of your inwardcore, if there is such a thing, that feels very strongly, that is highlysensitive—sensitive alike to dirt, to squalor, to poverty, and to enormous richesand corruption, to the beauty of a tree, of a bird, to the flow of water, and to apond that has the evening sky reflected upon it. To feel all this intensely,strongly, is necessary. Because without passion life becomes empty, shallow, andwithout much meaning. If you cannot see the beauty of a tree and love that tree, ifyou cannot care for it intensely, you are not living.