As I think about Joseph Campbell's phrase “Follow you bliss” I often wonder how many people think that the word bliss is for everyone but themselves; I know I did. From my background bliss was a big word. For me, the word bliss was reserved for people who did great things and served great causes. To me, bliss was something that an artist might experience, or a cloistered monk or an Eastern mystic. I thought that bliss was beyond anything I could reach or experience. Until I found the Science of Mind.

I found my bliss in the Science of Mind. Within the words of the book I found everything that I had looked for, for so long, in so many things. Although I did not know it until I saw it in print, what I had been looking for was an understanding of my place in the Universe and my relationship with God. I found both in the Science of Mind.

I found that I belonged to the Universe and as I interacted with it, it interacted with me. What I was to it, it was to me. I also found that I was one with the Creative Genius back of the vast array of all life. I found that God is not a mythical, abstract being, somewhere out there, but that God is in all of life and that included me too. That understanding was the first step on my path that has led me to my bliss.

My bliss is sharing the philosophy of Ernest Holmes as I understand it, and teaching Religious Science as a way of successful living. To me, helping others find and follow their bliss is a great thing and it is a great cause.

Rev. Robert Mitchell has been the Assistant Minister of the Center for Spiritual Living since March 1, 2003. His duties include Pastoral Care, the Taize` service, teaching and speaking. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Theocentric Psychology from LaSalle University, 2001. Rev. Robert first became a member of the Center for Spiritual Living in 1997 and was licenced as a Religious Science Practitioner in 2000. He finished an independent path of ministerial study and became the senior minister of an independent New Thought church in Garland, Texas before returning to CSL in 2003 and affiliating with UCRS.