With all the warnings about what "they're" doing to me; all the terror incessantly and vigorously being struck deep in my heart, and all the blame I might feel as a result of "not doing anything about it," here's a couple quick things I think I can do about it:
The beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell is perhaps best known for his freewheeling maxim: “Follow your bliss.” This simple phrase has been responsible for ending countless dead-end careers and launching thousands of soul-searching odysseys over the past thirty years. As a philosophical directive, it’s purely existential.
I was a scant month past my 31st birthday when I got the “call.” There wasn’t much fanfare—no burning bush revelation or heralding choir from on high. Just a steady voice with a simple message, reverberating in my gut: Leave home.
“A god can be simultaneously in two or more places – like a melody, or like the form of a traditional mask. And whenever he comes, the impact of the presence is the same: it is not reduced through multiplication.
When people start looking at and questioning 9/11, they become disillusioned from trusting society’s authority figures, and relive the process of determining what can be trusted to be real. When people experience such a shattering of their previous beliefs, they experience the innocence and wonder of a newborn child. They see for an instant through clear eyes.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
