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 ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
Do you see your life as a journey? If you are like me, coming from one culture and living in another, then you know something about cultural journeys. However, there are also cultural journeys that are invisible. If you are a stranger in your own culture—someone who is outside looking-in or inside looking-out— you will know the distances that you travel, just being yourself and still being with others. We are all a culture-of-one, but some of us are a little farther out than that, and we juggle the values. How can you make your position in life meaningful? Will you be a bridge? Will you leave and not return? Perhaps you will change. Perhaps you will become unyielding. Maybe you will discover something new and wonderful. Whatever your path, your Self is the source of your unique life, and your dreams and internal images are a way to see. If you like, I would be glad to listen and talk with you about it.
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五山の送り火
何百年という時を越えて、この土地では、亡くなった人を想う心が今も受け継がれている。時代がどれほど変わっても、人が死者を想う気持ちは変わらないのかもしれません。
On The Night of Gozan Okuribi
The traditions of this city have lived through more years than my own life, and through more years than my father’s life. They continue quietly, almost imperceptibly. Time itself has passed around them without disturbing…
Community and Individual Psyche—in the film, Lars and the Real Girl
[spoiler alert] Lars and the Real Girl is a film about a young man who begins to use a “Real Doll” mannequin, as if it is an actual companion and girlfriend, introducing her to family and…
What will happen to the Self ?
In moving from one culture to another, one gains but also loses something. I am reminded of what happens, when we peel off each layer of ego consciousness – a profession, a role in a…
If Psychology were a Person
I return to Kawai-sensei Sr.’s books, whenever I stumble on a bump in the road of psychology. He repeatedly wrote that he does not see psychology as a science. When he had interviews with experts…
Dualistic Tension
In 2005, I became aware of having dualistic tension within myself. As my stay in the United States lengthened, differences between my culture of origin and adoption became more evident. In graduate school, the gap…