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Passion, Purpose and the Magic Shoes
Discovering our purpose can seem like an enormous burden, a significant thing to contemplate. But if we are passionate about something, we can more readily come to know our purpose. We live our purpose as a natural expression of the passionate self.
Passion is visceral. When our bodies are alive, we are alive. According to Angelis Arien, anthropologist and storyteller, questions indigenous healers ask a person who comes to them complaining of dis-ease are: "When did you stop singing? When did you stop dancing? When did you stop being enchanted with the stories, especially the stories of your own life?" Certainly, alienation from our own passion and purpose is a critical dis-ease.&......