Passion!

Cultivating vitality.

Gregg Levoy

The Best Movies About Passion

Movies offer excellent visual-aids to our dramas around passion leashed and unleashed. Here's a master list.

The Dignity of Daring: On the Art of Taking Risks

Risk is the name we give to the art of moving from where you are to where you want to be. Here are 14 principles about the fine and fearsome art of risk-taking.

The Value of Playing the Edge

Pushing beyond the limits you’ve set for yourself, or others have set on you, is called edgework. Here's how to “play the edge” in the name of growth and thriving.

How to Ask For Help

Any calling can be undone alone, but not all of them can be done alone. Here's a primer on how to ask for help.

The Role of Passion in Healing

The commitment to living in alignment with our deepest values and passions plays a significant role in healing.

The Power of Using Art to Discern Your Callings

Art-making — whether writing, drawing, singing or dancing — is a powerful way to help bring us in line with our callings

The Only Goals With Any Power

The goals on tomorrow’s to-do list are the only goals with real power—because they’re the only ones you can get your hands on.

14 Helpful Links For Finding Your Callings

A treasury of resources for anyone wanting to (further) explore their sense of calling: websites, articles, blogs, videos and TED talks devoted to finding and following your calls.

21 Helpful Links About Finding Your Passions

A gold mine of resources and inspiration for anyone wanting to (further) explore the subject of finding their callings.

Ready Fire Aim: The Art of Saying Yes to Your Life

Sage advice on saying yes to your life, from the author of "Yes Man." The upshot: It keeps you on your growing edge and is essential to a passionate life.

Novelty-Seeking: One of the Keys to Thriving in Life

People who tend to flourish throughout their lives score high in novelty-seeking. Here's the connection between the exploratory urge and vitality.

37 Questions to Help You Identify Your Passions

Here are some questions to help you discover where passion and vitality appear in your life—and where they disappear—so you can know what your life-force wants from you.

How to Avoid Studying Your Calls to Death

One of the dangers in trying to figure out your calls is over-analyzing them. Here's the trick to avoiding that impulse.

How to Know Whether Your Callings Are True or False

A primer on the art of discernment—knowing what your calls are, whether you're ready or not, and how to respond.

Synchronicities: A Sure Sign You're on the Right Path

Synchronicities—meaningful coincidences—are homing beacons that tell you you're on the right path; winks and nods from the universe. Here's how to understand them.

37 Questions to Help You Clarify Your Callings

Without questioning there’s no discovery. Here are 37 questions that can help you discover your callings.

3 Ways Community Can Help You Clarify Your Callings

You alone are called, but that doesn't mean you have to do it all by yourself. Here's are 3 powerful communal tools to help you clarify your callings and passions

25 Great Quotes About Callings

Here are some of the most inspiring and entertaining quotes about finding and following a calling

The Silent Treatment: How Silence Amplifies Your Callings

It’s often in silence that you figure out what you have to say to the world, get a bead on your passions and the source of those passions.

The Power of Wakeup Calls

The purpose of wakeup calls is to awaken you to something you're ignoring. Here's how to make the most of them.

25 Great Songs about Following Your Callings

Some beautiful and compelling songs about the fine and fearsome art of following our callings.

The Power of Pilgrimage—Part 2: Designing Rites of Passage

Here are some practical tips for designing spiritual journeys—whether retreats, pilgrimages, or vision quests.

The Power of Pilgrimage (Part 1 of 2)

Questioning is at the heart of spiritual journeying, of leaving home for a time to seek answers to your burning questions. Here’s an argument in favor of taking up your bedroll.

A Single Act of Amnesty: the Heart of Com-passion

Passion comes from a word meaning "to suffer," and compassion means shared suffering. As with last month’s post, this month's features a second story about the power of com-passion

A Better Mousetrap: The Heart of Com-passion

Passion means "to suffer," and compassion means shared suffering. This story explores what's at the heart of compassion, and asks what we're willing to pay for it.

Why I'm Going on a Vision Quest in Death Valley

Vision Quests are for anyone seeking initiation into a larger life. Here's the Letter of Intent I was instructed to write about why I signed up for one in Death Valley in February.

16 Great Books About Passion

Here are a handful of mini-reviews of some of my favorite reads—both fiction and nonfiction—about the passionate life.

The Neutral Zone: The Fine Art of Being In-Between

Between an ending (of a job, a relationship, a mindset) and a new beginning is a phase called the neutral zone. Here's why it's so important not to skip it.

Heartbreakthrough: The Paradox of a Passionate Life

Living a passionate life requires the ability to manage the tension between two seemingly contrary ideas or impulses. Here's how.

Living to the Max

A story about about getting out of your own way and confronting the deals you've made to keep yourself safe—in order to live out loud!

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