follow my bliss

I use to be spontanious before I met my partner and before my daughter and it use to make me so happy. I still do it abit but not nearly enough. Im gonna be spontanious again and it will lead me to my bliss

It’s hard knowing. I guess I have to let go a bit & not over think things. Just go with the gut & trust.

I don’t know what it is, but it’s something. I’m starting to “remember” who I am, little by little. I’m remembering what joy is and what connects me to it. And I’m doing those things or moving toward them. It takes a lot of soul searching (just asking the question) and patience (waiting for the insight to come). The answers aren’t obvious, even though they are inside me. They’re buried so deep! I’ve never seen them clearly to begin with. But I’m finding the people, the places, the activities, the plans, the mindset … There may be hope for me yet! Showers, forests, small towns, hiking, girlfriends, running, dance, sleep, art, writing, reading, country drives, music, morning, fruit and simple meals, fitness, dogs, babies, the sky … I’m not sure why now. Maybe because I’m planning to move and need to choose my new path (town, job, career, hobbies, relationships, family). Maybe it’s M’s wedding, or watching D’s C. I guess it’s everything because I’m looking everywhere for the answers, for signs and wisdom. I guess it’s about asking the questions. What do I want? And knowing that the answers aren’t the obvious ones at all. They’re not “make more money” or “lose weight”, two goals I erased from my list today. It’s about doing what brings joy. All else (money, fitness) follows naturally when you follow your bliss.

...until death. So I give up.

It’s all about that kiss

Right, the classic bliss quote that sends one out into the world to bliss out in fantasy land, well, it pushes one to make changes for sure, and along with that some interesting times, but also some reality to deal with so the bliss can even occur.
Bliss is great but its not all that its crack’n out to be, along with it is some responsibility to my integrity and then when one is not in BLISS, one has to create what is going on and if its mellow has to be ok with it. Over all the bliss quest is great, some spontenaity and it is getting easier to be in “how good can you stand it” but my car is still in the shop and i do love bike commuting but there are some pretty good bills to pay, and i love eating sushi so making money in a bliss state seems to be on my plan if that’s not an oxymoron? or is it?
—-xojk
“If you 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 aught to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and thy open the 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.”

Joseph Campbell THE POWER OF MYTH

I don’t feel like I can measure it and therefore can’t achieve it so I am removing it from my list

I subscribed to the ballet. This is a big deal for me … to realize ballet is a “bliss” for me, to think of a way I can incorporate it into my life, to decide to do it, to get the information (brochure and website), choose shows and seats, make the call, spend the money (ouch). And get this – I’m doing it alone. I’m going to the ballet because it’s something I love and I don’t need anyone by my side to enjoy it.

I may never be a ballerina, but I can go to the ballet, learn about ballet, and maybe if my leg gets better I can take a ballet class.

and help other people follow theirs.

Above all things and in all things, follow my bliss. If you lose faith, just take a look at the smile Joseph Campbell wore well into his eighties!

And to everyone else out their following his or her bliss – “may you be helped each day by hidden hands and find doors opening for you where there were not doors before”.