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MONDAY THOUGHT 4/6/09

The Great Something
 
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that the energy force that powers humans, that drives us relentlessly, is a blank spot, a hole in the soul, an emptiness that impels us to find a way to be filled, to be completed.  This yearning for The Great Something gives birth to our passion for creativity, our sex drive, our quest for knowledge.  It is also the power pack of our competitiveness and desire to not just succeed, but to excel.  This is the force that moves mankind forward from caves to skyscrapers, from ignorance to knowledge. It is also the angst that drives us to over-eat, to drink and abuse drugs, to search desperately in dark places for light. 
 
It can be a painful force that controls and manipulates our lives.  Or it can be a harnessed passion that leads us to light and fulfillment, in a healthy quest for knowledge, goodness and light. 
 
My point:  Poorly expressed perhaps, but I believe that we can squander our passions in darkness and self-destruction, or we can choose a noble passion that leads us to truth and knowledge (the two being the same in my book) and — rarities of all rarities — fulfillment.  Our call.  — jri
 
“We may have all the things on our wish
list and still feel empty.”
    –    Harold Kushner