If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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