What happens when you’re hungry?

Do you ignore the feeling and keep doing what you’re doing?
Do you panic over the potential discomfort down the road?
Do you obsess about your hunger?
Do you try to fight with yourself, wishing or willing the hunger away?
Do you worry about over-indulging, or making the wrong choices?

Danielle LaPorte talks about adoring your divine insatiability.

But insatiability is bad! It must be controlled, crushed, hidden…

The hunger I’m talking about here is your divine hunger – the need, the drive to do what you are being called to do. To tell your story, to take that trip, to make a higher salary, to move to a different city, to write a book, to change careers.

Most of us don’t trust our hunger. We think it will lead us astray. It’s too risky to follow it. It will get us in trouble. It will cause us to eat too many cupcakes, or quit our job and become destitute.

Our world will change. We will fail. We will be seen as not talented or not valued.

Or worse yet, we’ll succeed and that will mean change, loss, and alienation. Your friends will be jealous. Your family won’t understand. You’ll leave everyone in the dust and be all alone. People might even hate you for your success. There will be guilt. And loneliness.

But what if your hunger was the most important thing in your life? What if your hunger held the seed of true fulfillment?

It does. It is the divine seed.

Trust your hunger. Trust your divine insatiability. IT IS THERE FOR A REASON.

Just like the hunger of the body is there for a reason (you would die without it), the hunger of the soul is there for a reason. And a part of us does die if we deny it for too long.

Love your hunger.
Honor it.
Adore it.
Cherish it.

Within its ache is everything you need to know.