This challenge presented before the Stoked class so that it may be worked on throughout the course. The more challenges you complete, the better chance you will have of being stoked or enlightened or both.
Now.
Ready?
Consider the following 3 quotes/themes taken from “The Psychology of Stoked”:
“…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. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. **I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” -**Joseph Campbell
J Campbell
F Nietzsche
“Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and sculptor of yourself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit.
O Hoffmann
To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.” -Otto Hoffmann
Now consider the following books:
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
by L. Frank Baum
Question:
What can these 3 novels on becoming teach us about our own stokage and the balance of happiness?
One of these books is about experiencing all spheres of existence in order to contemplate samsara and nirvana and saying “yes” to life’s instants.
One is a book about becoming what you already are by mastering and sculpting the self.