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Joseph Campbell was a great teacher/theologian/mythologist; if you ever get the chance read "Masks of God, Hero with a Thousand Faces", it's available in audio format as well, and look for the Bill Moyers interviews with him.

Having heard that for years, some one elaborated on it, and it made even more sense. Bliss, the word has roots in the word "blister", a some what painful result of doing something repeated (sometimes something like playing guitar, or just manual labor), but after a while, the blister heals over, and becomes a callous, and said task becomes easier; or you are at least more able to do it with out the hindrance of the sore spot. It was described as the example of working in the manner that one is moved - nothing will ever be fun 100% of the time, even doing what we love sometimes has the blister period, but when we push through it and make those callous, we can work easily with and within it. I hope that makes sense, but that is what I'm always trying to do, find my blisters and work them into callouses.

Hummm. Follow your bliss and blisters. No seriously...that's a great quote.

I don't mean to spoil the serious tone of the post, but the post ends in -666. runs away

my grandmother told me that ever since i was a little girl, and i have a magnet on my fridge with the quote, and have probably said it to those i love - and myself - nearly eight gazillion times, so far, in my life.

it really comes down to that, you know? everything else ends up being meaningless.

here's to bliss.

lucy.

I like it, I also like contrabandwidth's "find my blisters and turn them into callouses."

I have another for you - paraphrased: Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice saying "I will try again tomorrow."