There is a theological theory called the "Cat Theology" which teaches that religion is like a little kitten sitting there minding its own business when along comes mama kitty and picks the little one up by the scruff of the neck and drags it off somewhere to care and provide for it and eventually takes it to paradise.
Many people think that life is that way.
Rubbish!
You get from religion and from life what you put into them. With religion, you decide to live your life by the tenets of a particular "way" and you are at least sincere in your belief. With life, if you sit like a bump on a log, you will not get much from it, period.
I have seen this sort of thing with Internet dating sites while studying human behavior. Lots of people go into various singles sites, religion-based, secular, it doesn't matter. They chat away for endless hours looking for someone, but, they don't get out and try to get involved with people and places where singles meet in their own town. Why? Because sitting at a computer and chatting away with no hope of ever meeting someone who is sitting at a computer 3,000 miles away is safer than going out the front door and trying to meet someone face to face.
If you want to truly enjoy life, you need PASSION. The ideal scenario is loving your job and being the best you can be-- work is literally play. But, if your job is high, steady income and you don't really love it (don't hate it, either), then you need diversions for which you are passionate.
You need passion in love, too.Love, in Greek, is defined by three words: eros, porneos, and agape (see the image to the right). Their meanings are passion, physical love, and brotherly love– also called “The love of God.” Our primary interest is eros, the passion of love.
Without passion, love is empty and becomes a simple, biological function. It is unrewarding and after a short time the thrill is gone. That explains why so many marriages fail within five years. Quite frankly, people get bored with it.
If you want rewarding, fulfilling love, you have to pour your passion into it. If you want a rewarding, fulfilling life, you have to pour your passion into it.
If you don't find your passion in life you will never find true happiness.
