What does 'Bliss' mean to you?

Answer 1

A state of extreme happiness

Answer 2

It must be how Adam & Eve might have felt had they been real characters before they got knowledge...sort of brainless and high...unaware of any cares or responsibilities...I don't think I like the idea of bliss too much it's bound to end in tragedy or at least a big come down at some stage.

Answer 3

I immediately think of good songs, as oddly enough many artists I really like have song about 'bliss'. "Blessed" by Heather Nova is one her golden oldies, like other great songs she wrote it's a poem of sorts. "Blissed" is the concluding song on Jesus Jones' album "Doubt" as well, and though this is another type of music altogether I love the song for it's gentle lyrics and the soundscape that echoes through my head down to my spine. I'm partial to walls of sounds, since Abba invented them, haha. Come to mention Abba, .. No I'll spare you that.

Answer 4

bliss well If i said i was living in bliss i would mean living a content close to perfect (cause nothings perfect) overall happy life

Answer 5

So many types of bliss with so many different ways to achieve, but here is one way:

Last night,
I dreamed you in my arms.
So close I could feel
your heart beating.
The night
surrounded us, and
comforted the depth of
our expression to
each other. We lay
together within a
harmony only felt
as you and I could feel,
and I wanted to
never awaken.

Bliss!

Answer 6

Bliss is what happens when we cross over, and can be achieved on earth to a small degree but its home is in heaven.

Answer 7

I guess it would be the happiest day you have ever lived multiplied by 1,000 at least. Now that might be bliss... I guess the closest day I have lived in bliss was the day I was filled with the HOLY SPIRIT! That was bliss!

Answer 8

To me, Joseph Campbell describes bliss best...or what it means to follow it, at least. The following is from the website of the Joseph Campbell Foundation: http://www.jcf.org/bliss.php

<....following one's bliss, as Campbell saw it, isn't merely a matter of doing whatever you like, and certainly not doing simply as you are told. It is a matter of identifying that pursuit which you are truly passionate about and attempting to give yourself absolutely to it. In so doing, you will find your fullest potential and serve your community to the greatest possible extent.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: "If you 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. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. ">

In other words, it's a bit like following one's destiny, the path which makes use of one's talents/gifts etc; Campbell was influenced by Jung, so Jung's stage of potential development of 'self actualization' becomes "following one's bliss" in Campbell's interpretation...but to me, I think the answer to one's bliss is found inside them. I think it's a path that leads to inner peace and when one's following their bliss, they're in convergance with, in harmony with, the universe. But in life, other things are a factor as well--such as if there is a bliss for each to follow, timing is probably a factor, i.e., perhaps you have to be ready for it, (prepared by your life lessons, etc.) but when one is, it's like you're drawn into it, as a magnet is to steel--resistance is futile, surrender the only option, but you know it's right, certainty will prevail without room for doubts, and determination and perhaps knowing you'll succed are what one will feel.... etc! Some people refer to a "calling", but i think it's in you---it's you calling you to it!!

Answer 9

taking my shoes off and putting my feet up after a hard day at work thats bliss

Answer 10

Peace and quiet,sheer bliss

Answer 11

I'm a christian so i 'intend' to be balanced in all that i do, you can call that bliss if you want babes. I'm on a journey, don't wanna get carried away and blow my gasket that aint the rush.