Following Your Bliss- Joeseph Campbell

[dor]

The series The Power of Myth was the first time i had ever been exposed to this idea, and its still one of the most eloquent summations.

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.

Some personal stories here:
Joseph Campbell Foundation - Follow Your Bliss

[Gambit]

I remember Joseph Campbell speaking about following your bliss (what a great series) and this has remained with me forever. What an incredible notion. If only I could do it. I don't exactly know how. I know what my bliss is, but it is in complete opposition to the life that I am now living and to follow my bliss would actually mean imagining living a life without the people who are currently in it. Very difficult.