Follow your bliss. – Joseph Campbell

The words are very precise, Joseph doesn’t say follow your desires or follow your happiness and certainly doesn’t ask us to follow our lusts.

Bliss is defined as follows by the Encarta World English Dictionary:

• complete happiness: perfect happiness
• spiritual joy: a state of spiritual joy

The definition begs the question, what is ‘perfect happiness’ and/or ‘spiritual joy’?

You must answer that for yourself. And to answer that question you must know yourself first.

So know yourself first, understand what makes you happy for the long run, understand your bliss and follow it…

Recommendation: Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals—India (2003)–The thoughtful diary of Campbell’s life-changing trip to India

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action–
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. – Rabindranath Tagore

The United States celebrate July 4th as Independence Day!

Personal freedom reigns when you are: Fearless, unaffected by what others think, feel loved, love others, joyous, peaceful, purpose-driven, service-driven, of excellent mind, body and spirit!

The planet deeply desires such individuals to come forth and fertilize the global consciousness that will someday lead to peace and happiness for one and all!

When do you or will you celebrate your Independence Day? When will you answer the call?

Recommendation: Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore