An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder 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
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
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like… — Curnonsky Copy Share Image
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture...… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
