http://gapingvoid.com/2009/04/09/the-survival-dance-and-the-sacred-dance/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2009/04/09/the-survival-dance-and-the-sacred-dance/#comment-31575 The Monster In Your Head » The Gift of the Survival Dance Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:25:19 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=4683#comment-31575 [...] been a Post-It note stuck to my monitor for weeks. I was in Miami when a client asked again about the Survival Dance and the Sacred Dance. She was caught, she said, between choosing what felt like the job she needed to take versus the job [...] […] been a Post-It note stuck to my monitor for weeks. I was in Miami when a client asked again about the Survival Dance and the Sacred Dance. She was caught, she said, between choosing what felt like the job she needed to take versus the job […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/04/09/the-survival-dance-and-the-sacred-dance/#comment-24955 Karen MacKenzie Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:56:20 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=4683#comment-24955 Thank you, Hugh, for posting this. Recently, an accelerating energy is taking me from complacency with a job that I do well, get paid well for, and even enjoy - to a new direction where I'm following a deep-rooted passion. Reading this excerpt, I was touched really deeply. I wrote a post on my own blog this past week ( <a href="http://foodandyoga.ca/inner-peace-teach" rel="nofollow">http://foodandyoga.ca/inner-peace-teach</a> ) which mused over the change from survival to sacred. I'm amazed at the beautiful coincidence of reading Swift Deer's words. Ah! Just one of life's sweet moments. Thank you, Hugh, for posting this. Recently, an accelerating energy is taking me from complacency with a job that I do well, get paid well for, and even enjoy — to a new direction where I’m following a deep-rooted passion. Reading this excerpt, I was touched really deeply. I wrote a post on my own blog this past week ( http://foodandyoga.ca/inner-peace-teach ) which mused over the change from survival to sacred. I’m amazed at the beautiful coincidence of reading Swift Deer’s words. Ah! Just one of life’s sweet moments.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/04/09/the-survival-dance-and-the-sacred-dance/#comment-24954 Alice Bachini-Smith Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:00 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=4683#comment-24954 Wow, this is great, I may have to buy the book. Excellent explanation of the relationship between survival-work and spiritual/passionate/vocational work. Thanks for posting it. Wow, this is great, I may have to buy the book. Excellent explanation of the relationship between survival-work and spiritual/passionate/vocational work. Thanks for posting it.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2009/04/09/the-survival-dance-and-the-sacred-dance/#comment-24953 Sarah Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:47:44 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=4683#comment-24953 Great excerpt. I hear you. Got my survival dance happening first - teaching. The world never stops needing teachers right? Then decided to move to part-time teaching so I could study my passion as well. Father's response - 'how will that course help you with your teaching?'. My response - 'Well, that's not why I'm doing it...' And now getting paid to do stuff closer to the passion. But still working on the soul dance. Still trading partners as I swing between the two beats. Getting there. Having fun. And still managing to eat (even though it's often mac n cheese...) :) Great excerpt. I hear you.
Got my survival dance happening first — teaching. The world never stops needing teachers right?
Then decided to move to part-time teaching so I could study my passion as well.
Father’s response — ‘how will that course help you with your teaching?’. My response — ‘Well, that’s not why I’m doing it…‘
And now getting paid to do stuff closer to the passion. But still working on the soul dance. Still trading partners as I swing between the two beats.
Getting there. Having fun. And still managing to eat (even though it’s often mac n cheese…)

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