Daily Archives: 29/04/2024

Here’s an interesting and rather blunt quote, actually from a Hindu vocational adviser on Linkedin: The passion, in “following your passion”, is largely driven by interest. This interest is mostly floating and is largely influenced by the environment and current trends… Following your passion can be very misleading, many times it leads you to nowhere and a permanent state of unhappiness. Desire is born out of a passionate mind, the more you feed it, the stronger it grows, and when the desire is unfulfilled it agitates the mind. This seems to echo the biblical pessimism about “passions” I explored here. The source above, incidentally, goes on to advise young people … Continue reading →