joy x grief

Unconditional joy springs forth from connection to truth and devotional attunement to life. It’s not circumstantially dependent, meaning things don’t need to be a certain way for you to feel it. It can actually be derived from opening to, experiencing and accepting great darkness — welcoming it all home into the infinite heart of your being.

In a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?" In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu