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Do you know if it has a specific time or place of origin?

2006-07-04 12:30:21 · 2 answers · asked by ? 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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I wasn't sure exactly when, but I was pretty sure it was Joseph Campbell, the noted mythologist(?) - this is from the website of his foundation.

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.

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My general formula for my students is "Follow your bliss." Find where it is, and don't be afraid to follow it.

--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pp. 120, 149

2006-07-04 13:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by e_serafina42 2 · 0 0

Bliss, Idaho:
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bliss,+id&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=42.951146,-114.910469&spn=0.109311,0.343323

2006-07-04 12:37:48 · answer #2 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0 0

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