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
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of… — Nick Gordon 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
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience?… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck 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
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these;… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening… — J. Christopher Stevens Copy Share Image
The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over… — Boy George Copy Share Image
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers'' ''Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower'' ''WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power'' ''Days come true!… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood;… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
