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Follow your bliss... Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all. The privelage of a lifetime is being who you are. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Life is without meaning You bring the meaning to it. We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. You enter the forest at the darkest point where there is no path Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else's path. The very dark cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center. The goal of the hero journey is to find those levels in the psyche that open, open, open and finally open the mystery of your Self being Buddha Consciousness or the Christ. That is the journey... Follow your bliss... --Joseph Campbell I just finished watching Bill Moyer's interview with Joseph Campbell (a six VHS tape box set I got for Christmas...I'm a big geek, I know) and boy is the man cool. I've always been a fan of his books, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and "Myths to Live By," but actually listening to him speak is a completely fantastic experience... "...literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco | |
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If memory serves me, MrBliss (aka BlissedAgain) said this is where he got his name. This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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Moderator | thanks for posting this! In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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is the bliss in life really worth the ...torment that follows??? | |
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sexinthesummer said: is the bliss in life really worth the ...torment that follows???
Torment doesn't have to follow... | |
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