Etymology

follow one's bliss

Today it means: To use the awareness of what causes one to experience rapture as a guide for determining what constitutes authentic and proper living. Full definition →

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The story

Coined (as follow your bliss) by American mythologist Joseph John Campbell (1904–1987).

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