Irene Soléa

Following your bliss

Bill Moyers:
Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands?
Joseph Campbell:
All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do 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. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open 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 had it going on…he wasn’t talking about just doing whatever you want…he was talking about finding your most useful passions….and the universe helping you to succeed in them. I realize that most of my 20’s were about doing whatever I wanted, exploring and trying on different paths, and balancing this fine line between single-focused ambition and general disorientation. With my birthday fast approaching, I’m so excited to have that partially behind me, and to feel now more than ever: I’m actually living my evolving bliss. Once I actually committed myself to it, things seemed to slowly yet miraculously fall into view, the right mentors appeared, the right organizations needed help, the right school finally looked attractive, and it’s still happening little by little. I mean, ME travel twice to war-torn parts of Colombia and help educators design peacebuilding education programs? ME contemplate a trip to Bulgaria representing one of the first feminist world music ensembles in our country? ME? WHY ME?

I guess, why NOT me. Whenever I have twinges of inadequacy or insecurity that’s what I end up saying to myself. Why NOT me. Why NOT you? It feels a bit surreal whenever one of these opportunities presents itself, and I marvel at how unrelated or random they seem in the moment, but in the end they’re all part of the same puzzle. It trips me up and then I just want to visit Perez Hilton’s website. Know what I mean? :)

Feel free to share your “bliss” here.

Posted by Irene Soléa on July 3rd, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

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