Passion!

Cultivating vitality.

Gregg Levoy

Questing: The Happiness of Pursuit

Forward momentum in life depends on the spirit of questing—even restlessness—within us.

Talkaholism: What It Is and How to Deal With It

When the hunger to communicate goes into overdrive—becoming a barrier rather than a connector—here’s what you need to understand about it.

The Tug-of-War Between Our Wild Side and Our Tame Side

Part of aliveness and authenticity is tapping into what's untamed in ourselves.

Trance-Ending: The Most Important Step in Making Change

Disenchantment—disillusionment with the status quo—is critical to setting change in motion.

The Power of Passionate Curiosity—and the Fear of It

Passionate curiosity is related to success. So why are we so afraid of asking questions, and why is it so important to do so?

The Trouble With Trying to Change the World

Do you fear that all your hard work isn’t making enough of a difference? Everyone's threshold of what is “enough” of a contribution to the world is different.

Circling: A Personal Perspective on Finding Genuine Connection

Circling is a powerful communication tool for being truly heard, seen, felt, known and understood.

What the Search for a Soulmate is Really About

What we seek isn't just the love of another, however soul-satisfying, but an experience of our own wholeness and sacredness; to become the person we already know ourselves to be.

Inner Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion don't just apply to the inner workings of groups and organizations. They apply—perhaps first and foremost—to the inner workings of individuals.

Why You Have to Question the Stories You Tell Yourself

A Personal Perspective: It's critical to confront and edit the stories you tell yourself about who you are, and separate fact from fiction.

Blowing Off Steam: The Power of Catharsis

Emotional release is good for your mental and physical health, as long as you feel and release them, not just vent them.

If You Can Do This, You Can Do Anything

A symbolic risk—a firewalking workshop, pilgrimage, ropes course, vision quest—can give you the courage to take on bigger challenges

How to Inspire Yourself to Take Risks

In order to experience excitement in taking a risk, you need some danger and the belief that you're protected from it.

How Shame Affects Your Passion for Life and Love

Shame plays a pivotal role in the loss of passion and intimacy in our lives. What's needed is an intervention.

20 Questions to Clarify What Your New Normal Will Look Like

These 20 questions will help you identify what your most valuable takeaways have been from the pandemic year.

Adrenaline Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Here's how to keep passion alive in a relationship and balance stability with novelty.

The Art of Being Lost

The art of “finding yourself” starts with admitting that you feel lost in both senses—owning up to it and allowing it in.

Revealing Is Healing: The Power of Vulnerability

We're afraid of vulnerability, but there are vulnerabilities that are life-affirming, rather than life-threatening, that build strength rather than weakness into relationships.

Reality Bites—But It's Good for New Relationships

The passion and love-blindness of new relationships need to be balanced with reality. Here's how to help speed up the infatuation-to-love equation in a new romance.

Frustration Attraction—How Separation Heightens Passion

If you want passion in your relationships, you need the occasional partings that make the heart grow fonder. Here's how to cultivate healthy separation.

The Call to Serve

Service is as much a mindset as anything you do, a way you live, and ideally a continual responsiveness to all the small daily calls to care for the world and those in it.

When Callings Come from the Outer World, Not Just the Inner

Callings come not just from inside your life, but from the world outside and the turn of events. Here's how to recognize and act on them.

Advice From Wise Elders About Navigating the Pandemic

A collection of sage advice from spiritual teachers and philosophers about how to steer our way through the pandemic with grace and grit

The Purpose of the Pandemic—20 Personal Questions

Here are 20 questions to help you clarify how your own life might grow and evolve as a result of the pandemic, and what it's calling for from you.

Boredom in Quarantine, or the Art of Turning Into a Skid

Boredom is like a dashboard light—it's there to get your attention. But though action is often boredom's remedy, insight might be the better vaccine.

What "Trusting the Universe" Really Means

Trusting the universe depends on whether you believe it's a friendly place or not, and your willingness to stay in conversation with it.

What's So Funny About the Pandemic?

The antidote to gravity is levity. Here's why it's so important that we find humor in the pandemic.

How Stranger-Danger Has Gone Viral in the Pandemic

There are really two pandemics, one of disease and one of fear. Here's how to counteract the fear of strangers unleashed by the coronavirus.

The Pandemic and the Pain of Losing Touch

Touch is social glue, and without it, we're in danger of becoming un-glued while we wait out the pandemic. Here's a look at the grief we may feel in literally losing touch.

The Coronavirus as a Calling

The pandemic is a directive crisis, individually and collectively, a setback that can lead to a reset. Here are some of the emotional and spiritual opportunities in the crisis.

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