“THE SECRET TO FOLLOWING YOUR BLISS AS YOU AGE”inspiring luminous wisdom from Joseph Campbell
LIGHTNING BOLTS OF 100% POSITIVE ENERGY and WISDOM
THE DAWNING LIGHT Volume 7, Issue Number 537
Revelations and Pearls of Wisdom Section Number 7
Written or selected and presented by Chinmayan
Saturday, October 21, 2023»»»»»> 2 MINUTE READ TIME <«««««
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THE SECRET TO FOLLOWING YOUR BLISS AS YOU AGE
And Your Body Is Falling Apart
It is Important to understand that the body is a vehicle for consciousness which goes on after the body dies.
The problem we all must face and work out in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline is …
The challenge to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle.
This is something I learned from myths.
I learned to ask the key questions unflinchingly. —
What am I?
Am I the bulb that carries the light?
Or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
One of the psychological problems in growing old is the fear of death.
People resist the door of death.
But this body is a vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the consciousness, you can watch this body go like an old car.
There goes the fender, there goes the tire, one thing after another— but it’s predictable.
And then, gradually, the whole thing drops off, and consciousness, rejoins consciousness.
It is no longer in this particular environment.
—Joseph Campbell from his book “The Power Of Myth”
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FOLLOW YOUR BLISS
Follow your bliss
And the universe will
Open doors where
There were
Only walls.
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INNER JOY IS FREEDOM
Find a place inside
Where there is joy,
And the Joy will
Burn out the pain.
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