Follow Your Bliss

And the moral is that the realization
Of your bliss, your true being
Comes when you have put aside passing moment
With its terror
And with its temptation
And its statement of requirements of life
That you should live this way
Why, I always tell my students

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Follow your bliss
Follow your
Follow your bliss I say
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
And doors will open
Where you didn't know
They were going to be

Your bliss, where the deep sense of being in form
Going where your body and soul wanna go
Where you have that feeling
Then stay with it
And don't let anyone throw you off
One fine evening I was in my favorite restaurant
Uh, at a table
Was sitting a father, a mother
And a scrawny little boy
About 12 years old
The father says to the boy
"Drink your tomato juice"
The boy says, "I don't want to"
And the father, with a louder voice, says
"Drink your tomato juice!"
And the mother says
"Don't make him do what he doesn't want to do"
The father looks at her, and he says
"He can't go through life doing what he wants to do"
"If he does only what he wants to do, he’ll be dead!”
"Look at me"
"I've never done a thing I wanted to In all my life"

[Chorus]
Follow your bliss
Follow your
Follow your bliss I say
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
And doors will open
Where you didn't know
They were going to be

A poet is one
Who's made a profession
And a lifestyle
Of being in touch with that
Most people have
To be concerned with other things
They get themselves involved
In economic and other activities
Or they're drafted into a war
That isn't the one you're interested in
And most people living in that realm
Of occasional concerns
They all have the capacity
That's waiting
To be awakened
Well, we're having experiences
All the time which
May on occasion
Render some sense of this little intuition
Of where your joy is
Grab it
No one can tell you what it's gonna be
You've gotta learn to recognize your own depths

[Chorus]
Follow your bliss
Follow your
Follow your bliss I say
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
And doors will open
Where you didn't know
They were going to be

It's miraculous
If you do follow your bliss
You put yourself
On a kind of track
That has been there
All the while
Waiting for you
And the life that you
Oughta be living
Is the one you're living
Somehow
And when you can see it
You begin to deal with people
Who are in the field of your bliss
And they open doors to you right there
Wherever you are
If you're following your bliss

[Chorus]
Follow your bliss
Follow your
Follow your bliss I say
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
And doors will open
Where you didn't know
They were going to be

[Chorus]
Follow your bliss
Follow your
Follow your bliss I say
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid
And doors will open
Where you didn't know
They were going to be