#follow your bliss

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[ivemanifest]

Affirmation For Today

I allow myself to be seen and blessed by the Sun, bringing in rays of positivity and blissful love.

[geopsych]

"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a 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 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."

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers

I know Joseph Campbell was not without faults but I have found what he says here to be true.

[travelersrest]

🐘🩷🐘

[anonniemousefics]

Today, I am overcome — in the best way possible.

Let me show you why.

Back in 2020, I was working (and stalling out) on my first novel - but I was also a “frontline worker” during the first wave of Covid, when we didn’t really understand how it spread. I was working at a grocery store on the side, initially for some mad money, to make friends in a new town, and prior to March 2020, I was having a grand time with it. And then Covid hit, and my partner had to take a pay cut, and suddenly, I found myself on the front lines of a thing because we needed the money. And there were people coming in to the store in gas masks. Panic buying. Every day was scary. I was coming home at night and doing my best to basically strip down and sanitize my whole self, hoping I hadn’t brought disease home to my family. My novel took a back seat. Everything took a back seat.

And I’d been in this headspace before, years ago, and the thing that got me through then as a traumatized teen was writing fanfic. So when I found myself gnawing on a new idea about characters that I’d resonated with deeply, I thought, well, fuck it. The world is ending. I could die next week. Might as well have some fun while I’m still here. Cuz there are a million problems in the world I couldn’t solve, but getting my favorite characters to canonically fuck was not one of them. I was eager to solve just *one* problem. 😂

So, I wrote it to make myself feel better, and I thought, if 20 people read it, I’ll be happy. And then 20 people read it. And then a lot more people read it. A one shot turned into 5 parts. And I kept writing. I made friends — in the midst of the most isolating global crisis of our age, I *made new friends*. I got to connect with people who loved the characters as much as I did for the same reasons I did.

In short: I survived.

Eventually, we recovered financially and I got to leave that job, but I don’t think I’ll ever forget what got me through it mentally, emotionally: it was you guys.

So, this is why I’m so overcome! @specializationisforinsects and @pyrrhlc gifted me with this AMAZING HAND-BOUND COPY of the fic that started it all - the fic that kinda saved my life? And, guys, it is beautiful. It’s even prettier in person but have a look:

I know I’m just a little account, and I know I’m being kind of dramatic about this - but I guess I wanted to show that success in writing doesn’t have to look like sweeping popularity and landing book deals and making money. We live with this capitalist narrative that that’s the only way to know you’ve succeeded with your writing - that’s what will be celebrated and that’s how you’ll know your hard work was worth it. But sometimes, it looks like this. It is deeply satisfying knowing that my work resonated with people. It’s absolutely blissful knowing that someone put this much care and love and art into binding this fic with their own two hands. My life is so much more enriched from knowing people who like the same kind of art I do. I don’t know, guys - this feels like success to me.

When people irl hear that I write, they want to know what my goals are. What’s the next step, they want to know. What they mean is, how are you going to monetize it? I don’t know. Maybe someday that will happen for me. But I also know that don’t want it to happen at the expense of this blissful feeling I’m experiencing right now. This right here is priceless.

Thank you, Winston and Anne, from the bottom of my heart. This exceeds all my wildest fic dreams. ❤️

[ardent-reflections]

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: The Maria Bamford Show [2008]

[andrews-jort-loving-pipe-dream]

Renee has always been Asian in my mind so whenever anyone "fan casts" someone other than an Asian person for her likeness I have to remind myself that the author never specified her race.

[sidewalkchemistry]

💚A Few Herbal Allies for the Heart Center💚

Activating and opening the heart can help us to flow through life with a bliss we only imagined possible. Herbs can help out this process. And I recommend that you accompany this with some of our following guides:

Herbal Allies for Emotional Healing

How & Why to Protect Your Heart Energy

Establishing a Solid Meditation/Mindfulness Practice (especially part 2 & part 3)

The Law of Love: Introduction to a Heart-Guided & Fearless Lifestyle

Connect to Your Higher Self & Stand in Loving Intentions

This infographic was designed by Herbal Academy, not me. Please always verify that herbs will not be dangerous to you in your current situation of life before using them.

May all beings be blissful☺️

[vandaliatraveler]

“The Promised Land is not a place to be conquered by armies and solidified by displacing other people. The Promised Land is a corner in the heart.” - Joseph Campbell

[ivemanifest]

Your personal guidance to pure bliss, peace & happiness 🤍

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Bliss Carradine from Follow Your Bliss is demisexual!

[travelersrest]

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[kellymagovern]

Rumi’s statement is very revolutionary: "Do not move because of fear." All the religions say to people, “Fear God!” Mahatma Gandhi used to say, “I do not fear anybody but God.” When I heard this, I said this is the most stupid statement anybody can make. You can fear everybody, but don’t fear God because God can only be approached through love. God is not a person, but the universal heartbeat. If you can sing with love and dance with love… an ordinary activity like whirling out of love…. Joy and celebration are enough to reach to the innermost sanctum of being and existence. You all have been living out of fear. Your relationships are out of fear. Fear is so overwhelming — like a dark cloud covering your life — that you say things which you don’t want to say, but fear makes you say them. You do things which you do not want to do, but fear makes you do them.

[heroofthreefaces]

I dreamed of Stede Bonnet of Our Flag Means Death going on a rant about the pressures and unfairness of internalizing the suppression of who he truly is by the expectations of the slice of society he lives in; in a way which I don't believe (I only watch Our Flag Means Death on Tumblr) the screen character is sufficiently self-aware of this dichotomy to do, though the viewers and the other characters, or at least Ed, must see it; with which I was identifying heavily on account of my autism or of my fancomics or of I'm not even sure what.

[simpleman193]