What are you passionate about?

[Kim Klingler]

Sharing our passions allows us to connect to our truth and helps others connect to their passions. What do you love to do, what would you do if money, time and commitments allowed to be considered?

Share your passion with me!

[Urs]

What I'd like to do is (not so) simply to awaken people, to help them understand that it ain't money that makes the world go round, it is the need from deeper within to understand why we are here, what the real message is that the universe is telling us. I believe that everybody is on this planet to learn, and to understand and from trying to understand others their passion, well you'll learn to love them...My truth doesn't have to be your truth, but as people we are equal, no matter what gender, color, religion or sexuality one has, everyone needs love, and it's so silly that one human being murders the other for their believes, their country, oil or anything....My passion is to learn, to love and understand people no matter what....
I also find that in music we're universal, so why not start from there?

[Esther]

The music allways is working for our unity. Allway was there. Whithout begining whithou end. So I think it is perfect to start.
Now is the time to dont ask, we know, we belive, so we are living, moment at moment, like dancing, finding the music of the live.
Today my little friend, Aleix, 6 months years old, today,ring the bell, he is practing..the moment was beatifull(yestarday was his bithday)he smiles when lisen the bell, and he understand is himselve who rings the bell,his smile say everything.
Never wrote english in this way, couse I am from Spain, and here dont speak english, so, sorry if you dont can undertand to me. I am inproving my english moment to moment, and everyday would be better, same with the music,allways I thought couldnt to have ritm, and this is imposible, I have my own ritm, and just have to know it. I have all my live to do it. My passion is to learn, to love and understand myselve...y everybody nearly to me, casuality many musics people round me.

[Rella]

My passion is ensuring equality for all. Having been personally affected in the recent election by the elimination of rights to a group of people because another group doesn't agree has electrified this passion. Speaking out in my community for the first time on November 15th as part of a national voice, has Awakened my soul to never remain silent again.

Those words reached all corners of the country - as small as they were - and it has made me realize that no matter where we are, that each of us has a voice and we all need to speak out - loud.
Stand up for your truth, for your passion and use your voice. One voice can make a difference - the difference of having others join you, making that two voices, then four, then more and more.

BE YOUR CHANGE. Thank you Melissa Etheridge for continuing to be such an inspiration in all that you do. Your music and words have made me re-evaluate my response to life - and use my gifts to help others.

[G Jr.]

My passion began by accident---literally. I woke up in a hospital 6 years ago as a new member of the disabled community, paralyzed from the chest down. My mind was intact and I felt no different inside, but the world around me suddenly became one where I had to prove my intelligence, strength, and value to people who'd underestimated me at face value. Since that time, I've overcome any feelings of marginalization by never losing sight of who I was and ascending the ladder of education and success. But I still see people who devalue the disabled as well as disabled people who devalue themselves.

What's my passion? To show the world what people like me already know: weakness and disability are not inextricably linked. In fact, some of the strongest men and women I know are in wheelchairs, use protheses, and cannot see or hear. Many of them, like me, were serving their country when they lost what God/nature had given them. Others were born with what they have and demonstrate courage on par with the most heroic acts on the battlefield.

Someday, I'd like to see a world where a disabled Japanese kid isn't hidden in some back room out of shame; where wheelchair accessibility is a reality across Europe; where paralyzed youth in Iraq play wheelchair sports and can finish college, where people aren't surprised that I raise my daughter alone, attend graduate school, and run a million-dollar nonprofit organization...where I can look at a young person who's less than physically perfect and believe he or she can be President of the United States someday.

On a positive note, we are making progress. The United Nations passed the Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, thus establishing a moral benchmark for the civil world. (you can read it at http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/72.htm). I'll end with a quote for everyone to consider: Be careful how you treat disabled people; if you live long enough, someday you'll be one of us.

Happy holidays, all.

G

[Dorte Andersen]

My passion if at all possible? To lead retreats and build a treetophouse!
My passion is also to teach - and I´m happy to say that I do teach a lot already!
Dorte, Copenhagen - Denmark

[Khadigah]

My passion is to learn and teach. To learn from any and all people. My passion is to live in a way that is most pleasing to God by working to spread justice, peace, and love. The struggle persists and I am loving it.