Fierce Passion

Sometimes passages stick with me; and I find myself running it through my mind, repeating phrases, words, sentences. Savoring them. Going back and drinking from them again and again. Here's one that's most recently called to me. I'm enamoured with the way it vividly captures and creates images in my mind. The ranges of emotion, the depths of feeling: Life

"Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.” ~ Joss Whedon