What is Passion? (+ my new song)

[ivankiss]

I've been thinking about this a bit today...

How would you describe passion? 

Is passion just another word for Love? Or is it an expression of Love? 

My whole life I identified myself as a very passionate person. It is precisely because of that passion that I started seeking deeper meaning. Truth. Love and Light. 

The hardest thing I ever had to do was letting go of that identity. I was dying over and over again. Three long years without creating any music at all. It did not make any sense... I embarked on this journey - completely surrendering myself to the unknown precisely because of passion... and then - all of the sudden - it was taken away from me. Everything was gone. But I kept faith. Something in me knew that I was doing the right thing. It was a necessary sacrifice. For Truth is known in absolute silence and stillness, only. 

360° and I'm back where I started. Sorta. Or not at all. Point is; music is back in my life. Something's changed though. I was struggling with reconnecting with the fire inside my heart. The joy. The excitement. I started making music again, but something just didn't feel right. Shortly; I fell into a loop of self-judgement and started going through yet another cycle of purification.

I realized I was pushing too hard. Completely overlooking the reason why I'm so in love with making music in the first place. I don't just create rhythms and melodies. I create entire worlds. Every song is a journey. A story. So what if it takes some time to create an epic one? So what if it's not 'perfect'? What matters is that I love what I do and I enjoy the process.

I'd say that's passion. I can feel it burning inside me now. Nothing can stop it. 

So, if ya wanna hear how my purification sounds like lol,  you can check it out here:

https://m.soundcloud.com/ivan-kiss-76358366/absolution

Much Love and respect 

[Inliytened1]

@ivankiss at the Absolute level it is the burning desire for Yourself or the Love that burns within you for Yourself.  (The Selfless) Because all that your heart burns for is ultimately an expression of Yourself and of Love for Yourself through the finite vessel of others or other things.  

[Waken]

I've heard once that passion is your bodies physical translation of your authentic self/frequency. So then, when you're acting on your passion, you would be most in alignment with your natural/true self

Edit: Interesting. At a time where I used to listen to quite some music and play guitar, I got the insight or thought that there was no 'I'. Then the desire to do those things: listening to music, playing guitar (also reading actually) just got removed all of a sudden. I didn't think bad of it however. It felt like some parts of identity were removed and perhaps the reason of listening and making music, etc had some identity involved. I did barely listen (and also barely made) music for perhaps 3-6 years. Now in the recent years I started getting some interest for it again and picking them up again. The perspective and motivation of which I go at it is probably (much) different now.
Editedit: okay lol. Lately I started getting some interest in animation (I've done an audio-visual study years ago) again. The thought hit me a week or two ago that I could produce my own music and make animation on top of those.I started playing a bit around with visuals and posting it on YT (still without my own music). I can play a bit of guitar and piano, but what I've never done and find attractive (too) is producing music digitally. Creating for example a bit of shamanic/celestial/cosmic/heavenly music that way. I just listened to your music and appreciate what you made quite a bit and resonate with that. It's quite close to my own preference with some quite slight difference. A week ago I downloaded audio program but haven't opened it yet. I feel a bit bad about having a long learning slope with this program, so perhaps that's why I didn't feel like starting with it. I wanted to share all of this with you as it hit me as a synchronistic event.  
Editeditedit: Dude, did you make that picture next to that song? I made something like that pretty much exactly the same about 1/2 weeks ago, although that was in animation form(Just rendered a picture/frame of it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10p8qivhvtMR789ZTJRbx4EgaULzwMV2t/view?usp=sharing)

 

Edited November 27, 2020 by Waken

[ivankiss]

@neutralempty Thanks. Not sure if I get all of what you said though. Or agree with it. But it's interesting. Appreciate your input ?

@Inliytened1 Like how you put that. Thanks! 

8 hours ago, Waken said:

I've heard once that passion is your bodies physical translation of your authentic self/frequency. So then, when you're acting on your passion, you would be most in alignment with your natural/true self

Also makes sense, yup. Sounds like something Bashar would say ? 

Interesting. It most certainly has to do with the process of dissolving the personal identity, yes. During that phase; making music could actually be a form of distraction. So yeah, letting go of that makes sense in that context. Would not say it's a must though. It's just how it played out for me.

Glad to hear you're into similar stuff. Would love to hear your music when you put something together. 

P. s. The image is not mine. Downloaded ?

[73809]

Passion is any strong or compelling emotion or feeling

[ivankiss]

@73809 Interesting. Will contemplate that idea a bit.

@Keyhole Thank you very much ❤

@DefinitelyNotARobot That's an interesting perspective on music. I remember once having a debate with a painter who also did not like claiming art 'his own'. Hmm. I don't know. I can resonate with that idea from one level.. But then again; I see nothing wrong with calling it 'mine'. I like taking pride in it. Maybe it's an ego thing haha. One could say that all of it already exists and we're merely tapping into and exploring those realms, yes. On the other hand; it could be also said that every piece of music that has ever been created was/is created by me (The Absolute)? So you know, whatever - I guess haha. However we do or do not label it; it's magical and lovely. 

I sang and played the guitar parts on this track. The rest is sampled. I mainly get my samples from freesound.org. Except for the percussions. That's a free sample pack I found somewhere in the realm of the internet haha. Everything was put together in Cubase ? Interesting fact; the words/lyrics are totally made up haha. It's all just gibberish ?

Sonically; I feel like 'I'm not quite there yet'. I'm working on my mixing/mastering skills. Especially working with vocals. That's a totally new thing for me. In the past - before the big pause - I used to write heavy, guitar- focused music, only. It was a completely different world. A different approach. Looking forward to perfecting things over time ?

Thank you for your input, and please do PM me some of your stuff if ya feel like it/if ya have anything 'out there'.

Bless ya!