Were ever a process of life communicate and eagerness…

Page 153. Were ever a process of life communicate and eagerness to him who lives it, they’re the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more-knit p with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination, sometimes with reflective path. But, wherever it is found, there is the zest, the tingle, excitement of reality, and there is importance in the only real and positive sense in which importance ever anywhere can be. Zest is the feeling of a keen passion. When my sick soul struggles I think, because I can’t find a generate or even feign the zest. James is right that it can be found everywhere In Activity, perception, imagination, or reflection. Which I have to say, is a little comfort when I can’t find it anywhere. In these moments I often make like Gertrude Stein and identify what I find most zest less so to speak, but leaves me feeling totally numb or empty.

— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag

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Find — and feed — a passion. You find a life's passion and then fuel your innate talents with it and with persistence, aimed at a specific goal. What you're really hunting for is zest — that keen tingle, the excitement of reality, which can be found in activity, in perception, in imagination, or in quiet reflection. Passion is not a lightning bolt you wait for; it's a little discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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