"Follow Your Bliss"

While skimming over Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, I found a great quote. Especially for those of us with graduation and 'real life' on our horizons.

"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 ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."

"Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word 'Sat' means being. 'Chit' means consciousness. 'Ananda' means bliss or rapture. I thought, 'I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being.' I think it worked."

--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pages 113, 120

When I dropped Pre-Med Microbiology, and then Psychology as my majors, I had no idea what I wanted to pursue in college. I started to examine the path that I was on and found that it did not stretch far enough for me. That is, I knew I would quickly tire of sciences and mathematics and I would be left without a path to follow to my own personal bliss. Then I realized the path to bliss that was there for me was so obvious I never noticed it until the path I was on ran out. I love to read! I will read anything and everything, losing myself and my reality for hours (or days if I had the time) blocking out people and events until I have finished what I'm reading or I can't keep my eyes open anymore. One day I realized that I would be happy for the rest of my life if I could have a profession that was my life's passion. And for me, reading, writing and photography are those passions. I was already on my path to bliss, and I barely noticed it. So to those who have not figured out what they want to do... "Follow Your Bliss!"