‘TAKE 5’ DREAM NEWSLETTER #6: 3/14/17-THE ‘QUEST FOR THE TRUTH OF MY INSANITY’ TAKES ME TO THE CAPITAL BUILDING IN CARSON CITY, NV. PASSION WILL BE EXPLORED. THE SAGA OF BASIC HS BASEBALL PROGRAM CONTINUES. IF THESE TOPICS INTEREST YOU, PLEASE KEEP READING. IF NOT, THANK YOU.
(Editors note-This is the enhanced version of our Nick Feher ‘TAKE 5’ Foundation Facebook page post 3/14/17)
During the time that has passed since my last ‘Dream Newsletter’ #5, spending moments in my ‘Fishbowl’ here in Henderson, NV, has provided me ‘Blessings and Revelations’. The word ‘PASSION’ took center stage as my readings of Aristotle continued.
Aristotle claims that when one practices ‘virtues’ all the time, this practice creates ‘PASSIONS’ for the Game of LIFE. These ‘PASSIONS’ then assists in our ‘Happiness’. Everyone including Aristotle has his or her own definition of ‘Happiness’.
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What is PASSION? Wikipedia writes:
“PASSION (from the Greek verb πασχω meaning to suffer) is a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something.
Passion may be a friendly or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, discovery, or activity or love – to a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a subject.
Denis Diderot describes passions as “penchants, inclinations, desires and aversions carried to a certain degree of intensity, combined with an indistinct sensation of pleasure or pain, occasioned or accompanied by some irregular movement of the blood and animal spirits, are what we call passions”.
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