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To: Neocon who wrote (72258)	8/11/2003 5:27:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I totally disagree. Following your bliss, to me, is about finding what fulfills you, and going after it. If you aren't fulfilled as a person i'm not sure how you can be truly happy, and it makes it very hard to help others if you are yourself an unhappy person, or even not a specially happy person. The most helpful and giving people, imo, are people who are really happy themselveS, and who are following their bliss. The people who are the whole corner of the world they are in are the unhappy people not following their bliss. There is no one (imo) more self centered than a truly unhappy person.

To: Neocon who wrote (72258)	8/11/2003 8:01:27 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Joeseph Campbell coined the phrase, "Follow your bliss" and it had nothing to do with narcissism, or becoming this selfish ME at all costs type person, but about being in touch with our true selves. In a way, for all the Greek admirers here, it's maybe a bit like Socrates' "Know thyself". Campbell believed that bliss is "the thing that really gets you deep in your gut and that you feel is your life". It was an admonition to us not to get sucked into the material world, into the world of others' expectations, but to find what makes our lives meaningful. As I understood it, this doesn't mean some selfish pursuit, but the more Buddhist definition of knowing. Of course, when you get a catchy phrase like "Follow Your Bliss", it's inevitable that it get picked up without the context and used to mean whatever people decide they want it to.