"Now I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping off to the ocean of transcendence: Sat, Chit, Ananda. The word 'Sat' means being. 'Chit' means consciousness. 'Ananda' means bliss or rapture. I thought, 'I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; but I don't know if my being is proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being.' I think it worked . . . Wherever you are--if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."
--Joseph Campbell
What better place to discover bliss, refreshment of consciousness than at gorgeous Rock Creek in the Sierra Nevadas?
2 comments:
Nice blog. Fantastic photo of the water, esp. the enlarged version. Wow. I also see I can link Olav's Aurora Blog on my new blog. I didn't transfer everything over from Blogger to my new Wordpress blog. Which reminds me, you can update my link on your blog (http://alimansears.wordpress.com/)
I am now Superiorily Suffering, so it must be good. That's agony.
Given what I've been through at CES lately, yes, I'm in agony, and my new normal is not kicking &^%#$ out of everyone. I really do need to get mad. I think that will help. It really will.
I'm sorry you feel that way. Thanks for quoting my poem, though.
When I was a kid, I'd used to get in my pool and scream underwater. It burned the energy and sounded silly and ineffective at the same time. I always felt immediately better.
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