Day 43 of 50 ideas in 50 days is Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss. I have quoted Joseph Campbell for a long time, I love his work and his writing style, which has a poetic beauty. He describes ‘our bliss’ as the “welling up of the energy of the transcendent wisdom within you.” He encourages us to follow our bliss and his reason for suggesting this comes from the ancient Hindu texts, ‘the Upanishads.’ Inside, the texts tell us that there are 3 paths to enlightenment: sat (beingness), chat (consciousness) and ananda (bliss). He decided he best knew what ‘bliss’ felt like and made the decision to follow that path. He describes bliss as the joy you feel because God is flowing through you. It’s the happiness you feel through living on purpose. He also says, “when the call isn’t answered, you experience a kind of drying up and a sense of life lost.” It’s important to answer the call! You can keep with the same routine and Joseph Campbellhave the same problems surface again and again in your life. However, if you answer the call and direct attention to your purpose, it’s interesting how life tends to flow beautifully from that point on.

 

Joseph talks about our life path and says, “over and over again you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there and the help also, and the fulfilment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of fiasco, but there’s also the possibility of bliss.” That is life, there are no guarantees about what will happen and how it will turn out but should we never try because of the possibility of fiasco or failure? It is how we handle the fiascos that bring the possibilities of bliss. If we feel defeated and scurry back into our comfort zone, then the chance of experiencing bliss is extremely remote. However, if we follow our purpose then we have a greater chance of fulfilment because the fulfilment is in the actual journey. It is in the Pathway to Bliss.

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