The Power of Your "Bliss"

Our quest for a sense of fulfillment and purpose can sometimes seem challenging and elusive...that is until we come back to the most important and simple place of being deep in the middle of our bliss.  This is not bliss without struggle or pain or difficulty, it is the bliss that Joseph Campbell brilliantly defined as being in the rapture of our passions.

"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, The Power of Myth

When Campbell died, just months after recording the interviews with Bill Moyers that were to become The Power of Myth, he had no idea how these interviews, and, in particular, this idea of following one's bliss would resonate with the public. Within months of airing on PBS in the United States, the phrase "Follow Your Bliss" had become a catchphrase.   Joseph Campbell Foundation