A Bliss List
June 1, 2009
Follow your bliss. ~ Joseph Campbell
bliss–noun
1. supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment.
2. Theology. the joy of heaven.
3. heaven; paradise: the road to eternal bliss
4.Archaic. a cause of great joy or happiness.
Last night I was flipping through The Woman’s Comfort Book by Jennifer Louden for an idea of something good to do for myself. I don’t do that as much as I used to. I have learned some self-soothe and self-care skills.
I haven’t been doing them regularly lately. So the book has been taken out of the shelf and I am looking at it more again.I tend to flip pages and glance over them looking for an idea to catch my eye.
Last night I saw this. Make a bliss list. Joseph Campbell, when asked, what was his bliss, replied his wife.
Okay, I thought, that’s a tough one. Some time ago I started trying to figure out what I loved. It took a really long time. I had some great ideas of what I loved. But being multiple meant that lots of me didn’t have the vaguest idea what they loved.
We spent lots of time at libraries. We watched lots of different shows. We read books. We watched other people. We looked at things online. We tried to find ourselves in what we loved.
We know to a lesser degree what we merely like. Rather than actually looking for things we like, those were usually things that we discarded from the love pile.
We know a lot about what we hate. What we hate we have always hated. We learned what we hated from the abusers and what they believed and valued and loved. We hate those things.
But what we have bliss about that is a puzzle. I really don’t know. We think of bliss as being something even higher than loving something. I’m not sure about bliss. I don’t know if I have even one thing to put on my bliss list.
Okay, maybe one.
I first heard this here:
Thank you David.
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davidrochester | June 1, 2009 at 11:01 pm
You’re very welcome, darling. I’m honored to have introduced this wonderful piece to you.
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kate1975 | June 1, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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identity4 | June 3, 2009 at 6:20 am
It sounds like angels singing..
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kate1975 | June 3, 2009 at 6:34 am
Yes.
Kate
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mindparts | June 2, 2009 at 8:21 am
OK, now since we are writing about one of my favorite topics, I will list my all time favorite choral pieces.
Cantique de Jean Racine by Faure (has to be number 1)
The rest are in no particular order:
Magnificat by Part
Ave Maria by Guarini (from “The Mission”)
Lustorum Animae by Byrd
Requiem by Faure
Recordare Virgo Mater by Casals
Rejoice, O Virgin by Devo
Psalm 131 by Part
Triodion by Part
When David Heard that Absalom Was Slain by Tomkins
Nigra Sum by Part
The Cherubic Hymn by Heruvimi
Versa Est In Luctum by Lobo
Da Pacem by Part
Agnus Dei (from “Platoon”)
Rosari by Casals
Maybe a lot less “happy”, but good are:
Misereri Mei by Allegri
Mass in Cm by Mozart (particularly Qui Tollis and Jesu Christe)
Mass in C by Mozart (particularly Credo and Sanctus)
Requiem by Mozart
I have more, but that’s a good a list as any. It took me years to come up with this list. I have also a list of contemporary choral from movies, which are pretty good.
Paul
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kate1975 | June 2, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hi Paul,
I will listen to these. I do recognize a few. I will have to say that I don’t know much yet about choral pieces, but I discovered by listening to this song that I love them. I am reaching out for more of this in my life.
Kate
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