Living Life in the Now

“Follow your bliss,” says Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth – implying that bliss is happiness.

But happiness is not a destination. Happiness is a state of being. It is not in the past or in the future. A state of being is Now, with a capital “N”. Not a second later, nor a second in time earlier. And in an instant it is gone only to be instantly replaced.

Get Back on Track

From Campbell’s work with the Upanishads, a collection of Vedic Sanskrit texts, he came to the conclusion that:

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.

Be Happy

Happiness is the feeling that you are living, at least for the moment, in a state of being that is exactly where you need to be.