Sunday, April 6, 2014

Joseph Campbell - follow your joy

Mar 17 mor

Suddenly I realised I have fulfilled my commitment to Sadhguru, I didn't let the ball drop. My contribution for the past few years was mainly on managing old teacher. Others would have dropped out if they were not shielded from her. So my task is done. My last stint was to get them a voice in the restructuring and we got it. P now leading it.
Now the team is liaising comfortably with the new teacher. They are now ready for growth with a good platform.
My role fulfilled. Local Isha can't drop.
Now my attention is on Isha hata yoga.
Things are getting clear.

Joseph Campbell
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive,” Campbell continues.

“I don’t know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don’t know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being.”

“Follow your bliss. 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 you ought to be living is the one you are living. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be….Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”

Once you realize that this is your only quest, your only battle worth fighting, life takes on a new meaning, lighter clothes. It reminds me of Isaiah‘s biblical poetry:

“{You} will find new strength. {You} will soar high on wings like eagles. {You} will run and not grow weary. {You} will walk and not faint.”
But between soar and soaring, Joseph advises: “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
And you’ll be home, no matter where you are.
And it’ll be a new day, everyday.

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