If you want to be a hooper, hoop. If you want to be a surfer, surf.

Start with whatever it is that your heart desires, start with that.

Trust that your heart will never deceive you, because the heart loves what it loves and it loves who it loves. As soon as you accept that, you will learn that everything else was a product of a socially conditioned ego. You will learn that the ego has been doing the deceiving all along. As soon as you know that, you will begin to hear what your heart has to say.

And then you will begin to understand the language of your soul.

One language of the soul is passion. It is the fire in your heart. You can feel it’s blaze when you are doing that thing you love. Once this passion becomes known, it is your responsibility to carefully tend its flame. This means keeping it stoked without letting it consume you. Balance.

The only thing that you owe the world is a dedication to find, stoke, and share this light to the rhythm of your ability to do so.

Build your life around this fire. Whether it’s a hobby or your profession. Swear to yourself that you will use this fire unconditionally, because unconditional love is the purest of fires. It is a love freed from any and all external forces.

It is boundless. It is holy.

It is your reason for being.