There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We… — Frederick Lenz 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
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don’t know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness—” He lifted her up. “The same ecstasy—”… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid… — Gabrielle Copy Share Image
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry--" cried the Mole. "--with out pistols and swords and sticks--" shouted ther Rat.… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution… — Alphonso Lingis Copy Share Image
My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I… — Joseph Plaskett 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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
