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My Muse is slow and does not lead where I think we should go.<\/em><\/p>\n

My Muse is a snail! She enjoys drawing so much that she stays with each image as long as she can, and it doesn’t matter to her where all this is going as long as I love where I am now.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, when Joseph Campbell told us to “follow our bliss” I tried to, but I didn’t know what bliss was. I thought<\/em> it was the powerful feeling associated with taking charge of my life and guiding it to one success after another,\u00a0 but that wasn’t it at all.<\/p>\n

Now I know bliss is loving where I am so much that I linger over each moment like I’m eating a sweet red strawberry. Each. Bite. Is. So. Sweet!<\/p>\n

This is genuine bliss, the real deal, deep soul love.<\/p>\n

Bliss out people, C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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