Bliss Quotes - Page 17

• The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Pain, Lying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Independent, Men, Self

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• The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Golden

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• I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

  Ani DiFranco

  Education, Ignorance, Envy

  Song: Adam And Eve

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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Heartache, Fertile

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  Adam Pascal

  Ignorance, Wish, Stills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Mind

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• Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Men, Long

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.19

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• As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, from glory to glory, — could we desire more?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Forever, Desire, Looks

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• Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

  David Lynch

  Rocks, Suffering, Individual

  "Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Possibility, Fiasco

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  People, Mind, Attention

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• We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

  David Lynch

  Light, Growing, Environment

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Penguin

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• The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Degrees, Form, Certain

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Outcomes, Heroic

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Heroic, Life Is

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• Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

  Brian Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Crowds

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• Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Struggle, Suffering, Life Is

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

  David Lynch

  Children, Should Have, Class

  "Paul McCartney signs on for NYC benefit" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2009.

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• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  Nicole Kidman

  Fall, Humans, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 31, 2017

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• To me, sweat is workout bliss.

  Brooke Burke

  Workout, Sweat

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• In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Yoga, Meditation, Suffering

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• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Light, Self, Ordinary

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

  Sharon Gannon

  Struggle, Yoga, Practice

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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