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Going Deeper Into Following Your Bliss

April 8, 2015 by Chris Duel 2 Comments

 

Follow Your Bliss

Follow Your Bliss

These three words may sound trite at first, but knowing the depth of their meaning and how Joseph Campbell came to understand them is truly empowering.

Campbell spent his life studying the world’s mythologies and religions.  He found common themes and connected the dots on “The Hero’s Journey,” which is not only the basis of humankind’s greatest stories, but is also encoded in your very own psyche and DNA.

Your bliss is your passion.  It is your soul work.  It is what you came into this world to experience and to share with others.

An extended quote from Campbell on how it works:

“Follow your bliss.
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 you ought 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 they 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.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”

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The World Is Going To Devastate You

February 13, 2015 by Chris Duel Leave a Comment

Note To Self

Note To Self

During a pre-Spring cleaning today, I found this note that I wrote to myself about three years ago.

The messiness of my scribbling suggests it’s a thought that occurred to me out of the blue, or from the other side of the veil, and I had to write it down quickly or it would become lost.

It was February 2012 and my friend Jimmy Parks, Jr. had died suddenly and much too young.

I was grief stricken, along with everyone who knew him.

I recalled Joseph Campbell’s description of the way of the Bodhisattvas.

“All life is sorrowful; there is however an escape from sorrow; the escape is Nirvana – which is a state of mind or consciousness, not a place somewhere, like heaven. It is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that. Voluntary action out of this center is the action of the bodhisattvas – joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.”

– Joseph Campbell, from “The Power of Myth”

 

The final words have always stayed with me: “joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.”

Life will ultimately be sorrowful.

Life will break you.

Either you will disappear or everyone you know and love will disappear, depending upon how long you live.

Yet…

There is joy.

Everywhere.

And you have a choice.

Boiling down Jimmy’s life and the message of every enlightened being and bodhisattva who ever walked the planet is to choose love over fear.

That’s what this download from the great beyond told me…

 

“The world is going to devastate you.

The world will bring you horrors and griefs.

But you must find and create joy in between the storms of life.”

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The Christmas Miracle is You

December 25, 2014 by Chris Duel Leave a Comment

Christmas and You

Christmas and You

“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?  Another year over, and a new one just begun.”  – John Lennon

 

Christmas is wondrous – for those filled with joy.

Christmas is delightful – for those living in the moment.

Christmas is inconvenient – for those feeling overwhelmed.

Christmas is sad – for those missing loved ones.

Christmas is depressing – for those feeling hopeless.

 

Christmas is so many things to so many people.

 

The celebration of holy birth of the Savior

The opportunity to gather with family and friends

The exchange of gifts

Christmas carols

Christmas cards

Christmas trees

Christmas lights

Christmas ornaments

Christmas egg nog

Christmas tamales (hey, I live in San Antonio)

 

But shouldn’t Christmas be more personal?

 

What if Christmas had an even deeper personal meaning in your life, your story, your journey?

 

Since the late-Eighties, I have studied the works of the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, who spent his life studying the world’s religions and folklore.

One of his key teachings was that during a holiday such as Christmas, we should internalize the story into our own lives.

Not just celebrate the holiday.

But live it. 

Embody it.

 

Thus, since the Christmas miracle involves the birth of the divine into the flesh and the physical world, why not allow the birth of the divine into our bodies, our hearts, our souls?

On this Christmas

and every day…

May you feel, allow and increase the holiness that already exists inside of you and all around you.

And may you know

That every day

Every moment

Is a miracle.

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