I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Love can be a land of wilderness, a wasteland of lost dreams in the backwoods of our muddled emotions, or it can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should accept the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
All that you really want in life is to change how you feel. Again, all your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were spirits free from mortal mesh And love not bound in hearts of flesh No aching breasts would yearn to meet And… — Christopher Brennan Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“Four months. She had four months to get it out of her system. Four months worth of fantasies and ecstasy to explore… — Maggie Wells Copy Share Image
Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
