Follow Your Bliss

[Flo]

Abe has quoted Joseph Campbell's "Follow Your Bliss" quite often....here's the rest of the quote....

BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: 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.

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.

This part of the quote reminds me of the parallel realities/universe thread.

Here's another quote I adore....

Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "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." I think it worked.
-- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=83&p9999_action=details&p9999_wid=12), pp. 113, 120

[Flo]

But it IS like Bewitched....
YouTube- "BEWITCHED" Episode One - "I, Darrin, Take This Witch Samantha" - Part One

[asjairok]

he he Flo, mother¨s finger was very funny haha.

[Flo]

Skib,

Since this is a Joseph Campbell thread with quotes from his The Power of Myth, I just want to say the Bewitched is a wonderful metaphor/myth....why would a magical being choose to live within the limitations of the time and space reality of the mortal world?

Samatha would say she did it for love. So would I. :grin:


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp384345.html)

Adal (if you ever read this)

This quote reminds me of you....

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp121325.html)

:heart:

[Nightprincessa]

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp121325.html)



People are alive but they are not acknowledging it. You don't need to look for an experience to feel alive, all you have to do is BE in the moment and "see" yourself and all that YOU ARE... in pain, in bliss, in whatever.

You ARE! - And THAT IS the experience of being alive!!! :namaste:

[Flo]

Abe on following your bliss and the experience of being alive:D


#47) My Career is One of Creating a Joyful Life Experience ... If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions -- freedom, growth, and joy -- will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things, or a regurgitator of what someone else has created, or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. This is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here."


Everything we've been saying here today has been with the intent to help you get it that the only reason you have goals is for the excuse of the river ride.
The accomplishment of one thing is irrelevant. It is the feeling of expansion that is relevant.
It's life that you are about.

And you say:
Yeah, we're living life but what should we be doing with it?

And we say:
It's life that you're about. It's the joy of life.

And you say:
Yeah, joy, joy, joy. But what about the growth and the expansion? Aren't I supposed to be becoming something?

And we say:
Yeah, you can't stop but becoming, but it's the process of becoming that life is about.

And you say:
Yeah I'm living life but what is it that I'm supposed to be doing with it?

And we say:
Living it and loving it.

And you say:
Yeah, but toward what end? ( ie what's the meaning?)

And we say:
There is no end to the life that you lead. You're eternal beings.

Yeah, but what's it all about?
Living and loving and having joy.

Yeah, but for what?
For the joy. For the joy of life.

Yeah, but toward what end?
For the living and the loving of life.

It's the living and loving of life that you're about; not accomplishing something.
Because there's never an end to what you're going to want to accomplish. The only reason life is giving you those goals is so that you have a reason to manage your vibration and feel the alignment and come into the alignment, you see.
The expansion is inevitable.
You are Source energy, banging around, giving birth to new desires. You can't stop that.
Whether you ever know it consciously or not in this physical form, you are contributing massively to all that is. That is a given.
So, your objective must be joy.
The basis is utter freedom. You are so free, you can attract bondage.
The basis is joy. Because if you are reaching for anything else, you are not in alignment.
And the alignment brings immediate awareness of expansion.
But the expansion is inevitable.
-- Asheville, NC 5/5/2007



Joy to the World! Be loved!
:heart:Flo

[sara]

Abe has quoted Joseph Campbell's "Follow Your Bliss" quite often....here's the rest of the quote....

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: 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, ... 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.

.. in Sanskrit, three terms that represent ... the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. ...So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked.
-- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=83&p9999_action=details&p9999_wid=12), pp. 113, 120

I LOVED JOSEPH CAMPBELL before I knew Abe!!
I love, love , love these quotes FLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I APPRECIATE YOU SOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAH!!!!!!!!!:heart::love::heart::love::heart:


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp384345.html):heart:


WOW FLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAD NOT HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YUMMY!
MORE, MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:heart::joylick::hear t:



It was so wonderful to see and hear him say these words in videos on PBS years ago..
I did not discover him until he was dead...:cry:
And hearing him talk in his advanced age (80's)..
he was soooo full of life and zest and love for his BLISS!!

Wow just watching him is a lesson in itself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
He exemplified his teachings!!!!!!!