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Discover - or rediscover - your passion for life. What inspires passion in your daily life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back again? Within this exuberant and powerful audiobook, Gregg Levoy, best-selling writer of Callings, explores ways to cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a frame of mind - a position - that helps bring vitality to all your engagements, from work and romantic relationships to creative imagination and spiritual life. Vital Indicators examines the unlimited, yet endlessly productive, tug-of-war between passion and security in our lives, the outdoors in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves, and shows us how to stay engaged with the world and resist the downward-pulling causes that can drain our aliveness. Vital Indicators also stimulates courageous inquiry into our dis-passion - where we're numb, stressed out, stuck and bored to death in our lives - so that we can rework these tendencies in ourselves and lay claim our rightful inheritance of vitality. What you'll learn:
- Interest can be cultivated. Fired up as well as turned off. And this happens most quickly at the level of the gesture and the moment, not the five-year plan.
- Interest is in the risk. In the willingness to step from the sidelines onto the taking part in field.
- Interest breeds passion and disinterest breeds disinterest. If you lack passion in your daily life, your other romantic relationships - your partnerships, friendships, communities, classrooms, businesses and congregations - will be refused that energy.
- Interest is more than exuberance; it's endurance. It's sometimes shoulder-to-the-wheel endurance and fortitude on the order of years.
- Interest is intimately related to health. To the amount that passion is vitality, honoring your passions improves your vitality.
