Joseph Campbell - Follow your bliss

Dec 14 aft

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2012/11/09/joseph-campbell-on-the-art-of-being-alive/

Joseph Campbell
I asked Joseph Campbell one day, “Dear Sir, what should I do? I try and try and try to change my wasteland into an oasis, and all I get is a mirage. It looks like water, but it’s not. I’m thirsty, Joseph, damn it.”
He smiled with his eyes:
“The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.”

Life is a funny lady. She tries to teach you things.
But you can only learn them by doing (or undoing).
“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.”
So dear You in Me in Him, Her, Them, dear Us, put this on your fridge, lest you forget. It’s your heart’s most urgent shopping list.
“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.”


Soul
Love this.
Thats my quest now.
Just follow my bliss.
Only when I am blissful, I am contented. And when I am contented, nothing matters and I can give sincerely.
In another word, "only when my cup is overflow; the outward flow is natural phenomenon, not forced.


Joseph Campbell
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.


Soul
Thats my shrine and sadhana.
Thats keep me grounded, keep my joyful and contented.
Thats my home.

Father, ever since I stopped doing the plough back, I am able to feel grateful and blessed everyday. Instead of lamenting of what I don't have, I now feel grateful for what I have.