In today's world it seems daunting to try to fix anything as the bricks and mortar fall all around us and if we dig deep into our own psyche, we might wonder, where do I start?
Fortunately, there is another way which we've been shown time and time again through many powerful teachers. Joseph Campbell, being one of them brought the mantra "Follow your Bliss!" to the world in the 1900's. His reminder empowers us with permission to follow what brings us joy because "joy will burn out pain".
With the value of our one human life, we can create lives and hearts that bring positive change to the world. This comes through the determination to follow our joy and break through our pain with the choice for happiness and then to share our happiness with others.
Here's a quote from Joseph Campbell:
I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. "
I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. "
And here is a powerful poem by Goethe called the "Blessed Longing"
Tell no one else, only the wise
For the crowd will sneer at one
I wish to praise what is fully alive,
What longs to flame toward death.
When the calm enfolds the love-nights
That created you, where you have created
A feeling from the Unkown steals over you
While the tranquil candle burns.
You remain no longer caught
In the peneumbral gloom
You are stirred and new, you desire
To soar to higher creativity
No distance makes you ambivalent.
You come on wings, enchanted
In such hunger for light, you
Become the butterfly burnt to nothing.
So long as you have not lived this:
To die is to become new,
You remain a gloomy guest
On the dark earth.
May 2012 bring you clarity and bliss!
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