Ecstasy Quotes
487 quotes by 311 authors
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Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can…
— Rajneesh
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As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.
— Rajneesh
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Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind…
— Rajneesh
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Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you…
— Rajneesh
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Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain.…
— Rajneesh
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Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being -…
— Rajneesh
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Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum.…
— Olivier Clement
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The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all.…
— Rajneesh
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
— George Orwell
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting…
— Milan Kundera
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence…
— Anne Lamott
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Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees…
— Walter de La Mare
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both…
— Paul Halmos
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The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto…
— Karl Barth
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This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not…
— Rajneesh
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From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of…
— Gustave Flaubert
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To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find…
— Hal Borland
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic…
— Georges Bataille
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