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What's Your Bliss?

by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bliss is an expression of the Internal Joy we feel when we respond to the calling toward our particular work. Only then will we be living the life most authentic to us. To learn what your own particular bliss is, you have to ask yourself a lot of questions:

What, in your deepest heart, do you feel called to do in your life?
What gives you Joy?
What are your passions, talents, skills, and desires?
What do you still want to learn?
What excites you more than anything?
What contribution might you make to the world?

The only person who can answer these questions for you IS you. Don't look toward others to provide your answers. They might not be true for you. Listen to your Self, the place inside you that knows truth, love, and peace. Rumi said, "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."

To touch the truth, the joy, and the bliss within us requires a slowing down to listen to the heart. Meditation, reflection, and journaling are valuable tools in this process.

When you learn what life is calling you to do, you will have found your bliss.

Finding that bliss, begin to follow it. Following your bliss, you respond to the challenges your life offers with as much grace, faith, and love as you can, until soon you aren't just following your bliss, you are living it.
Joseph Campbell said this:
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the time waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the life that you are living."

In other words, be true to yourself. What's your bliss? Finding it, follow it, and soon you will be living it.

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