Contemplation Quote by William Butler Yeats

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around…

— Frederick Lenz

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex…

— Terence McKenna

“Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.”

— Barabara Carrellas

True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger…

— Deepak Chopra

“There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the…

— Anne Lamott

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

— Annie Dillard

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

— Carl Sagan

The word 'ecstasy' is beautiful; it simply means 'standing out.' Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind; getting out…

— Rajneesh

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all…

— Jack Kerouac

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be…

— Rajneesh

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

— Georges Bataille