To find out what you love
to do demands a great deal of intelligence;
because, if you are afraid
of not being able to earn a livelihood,
or of not fitting into this
rotten society,
then you will never find out.
But, if you are not
frightened,
if you refuse to be pushed into the
groove of tradition by your
parents,
by your teachers,
by the superficial demands
of society,
then there is a possibility
of discovering
what it is you really
love to do.
So, to discover,
there must
be no fear
of not surviving.
-
Krishnamurti
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Unfortunately for many of us, we have to earn a livelihood for ourselves and our loved ones to survive. Maybe when we are able to survive then we can have the luxury of doing what we love to do.
I think his point was about the FEAR of survivng.
If I'm focused on fear of not having enough, well that seems to then keep showing up more in my life.
If I shift my focus to THANK YOU FOR ... Then more of that flows in.
I know I was lucky growing up, because I was taught from a very young age that finding work in life that one loves is essential to living a full life. And so it has been a part of my life, not an unreachable goal, or something I have had to put off until "later." That has been a real blessing to me.