Where Does Motivation Originate?

THE UNDENIABLE DRIVE

Why do people jump out of planes, scale walls, climb mountains, challenge and exhaust themselves physically, become teachers without thoughts of monetary riches, go to a country to help people who are starving, sick, or without resources, enter a burning building to rescue others at the peril of their self-preservation, search for a purpose, and quest for their "Why"? 

The answer is more felt than understood and is discovered in the feeling itself. Some activities allow us to glimpse this feeling, which can be identified when one becomes so focused that one taps into a universal consciousness.

We call this “in a (the) zone,” or “in the moment.” In the moment, there is no judgment, and time becomes relevant. Moments are forever. All you have experienced in life is in moments, and everything you will experience can have moments in it, thus creating a moment. 

The answer is the feeling of an undeniable drive (“The Undeniable Drive”). “The Undeniable Drive” is the flesh's desire to survive and the spirit's desire to live. (This may be akin to the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang.)