When we study the self … it disappears.
Dogen Zenji

Your bliss can guide you to that transcendent mystery, because bliss is the welling up of the energy of the transcendent wisdom within you.*
Joseph Campbell

You’d think that studying the self takes
you more into yourself, but,
If we are prepared to avoid the shallows and
go deep, what we discover is our bliss^ –
The difference we want to make for others,
The contribution we desire to bring into the world, that
changes us through its unfolding expression.

*Lewis Hyde’s A Primer For Forgetting;
**Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
^Bliss for Joseph Campbell refers to the deep sense of joy and purpose eliciting from embracing our true self and calling.