bliss

Over vacation, sitting in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I was reading the current Taproot issue. There was an article about finding one's bliss by Holly Bellebuono. Taking the way not traveled. Blazing one's own path.

I will let you in a little to peek at my dark side. I can be an extremely jealous person. In relationships, about other's accomplishments, etc. It was terribly bad when I was a child. The fierce Leo in me used to burn brightly. It made me very competitive and stubborn. Over the years, I have sat with my jealousy and it has tapered. Reading the article, stirred up some old emotions. How I get jealous of people doing the things that I want to do. I wonder how they are capable and why I am not. It's the case of seeing someone with a lollipop and wanting that lollipop even though you weren't in the mood for a lollipop. Ego.

Holly started off the article talking about Joseph Campbell and how he too struggled with finding his bliss.  She then quoted Campbell, "Where there's a way or path, it is someone else's path; each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own pathway to bliss."

What is my bliss?

What do I really find bliss in? I started a list.

stories, forests, mosses, baking

herbs, journeying, sacred movement

meditation, yoga, crafting

photography, observing, traveling

sacred words

Small things that came to mind within a minute or two. I sat with that list. Then one of my journeys came to mind. One at the end of Spring SouLodge, where I was sowing my "seeds" in the four directions: Serenity, Wildness, Truth, and Sacredness. They would be my gifts to the Universe. 

"Each human being is a unique phenomenon." I can feel it when I am blazing my path. My whole being is radiant. Remembering my depth, my ability to observe, and be quiet is part of my path.

Here is where my bliss begins.