Follow Your Bliss
Posted on January 1, 2008 | Category: Beliefs, Better Living, Happiness, Motivation, Optimism, Power, Self Improvement
Bill Moyers once asked Joseph Campbell, the famous teacher, author and philosopher, “Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands?” Campbell responded, “All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
So you have to ask yourself, are you following your bliss? Some people don’t know what that is, and they’re still searching and reaching and crying for guidance to figure out why they’re here and for what purpose.
“People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life,” Campbell wrote. “I don’t think that’s what we are really seeking… I think what we are seeking is an experience of being alive.”
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