Follow your bliss is an often repeated line and for good reason. We all need a compass to guide us and the question is what do we use as the compass?
A couple months ago I shared this quote with a friend:
If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
Thoreau (I found it in a Wayne Dyer book)
My friend referenced a quote with similar meaning by Joseph Campbell, so I read the book the Power of Myth and came across:
Q: Do you ever have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?
A: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the 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 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.
What is the bliss to follow? It is yours to know. I believe it is your own inspiration that you are guided to by following your inner knowing. It may not seem known to you yet, and it is a constant process in meditation to feel, hear, know, and see your inner compass. Your dreams can be guiding feelings.
