Bliss Quotes - Page 24

• It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Enlightenment, Pursuit

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• Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Art, Creativity, Fullness Of Life

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• My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
  My sin, not in part but the whole,
  Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

  Horatio Spafford

  Sins Not, Soul, Bears

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• There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Elements, Flow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Source, Stimulation

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

  Joyce Brothers

  Real, Commitment, Love Is

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• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

  Alice Cary

  Happiness, Missing, Helping

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Heart, Long, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• There may come a day
  Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
  And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

  Bayard Taylor

  Success, Art, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.220

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• You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.

  David Lynch

  Spiritual, Emotional, Together

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Realization, Objects

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Self, Stones

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• Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

  Krishna Das

  Real, Self, Feel Good

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Apr 28, 2017

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• There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Giving, Pleasure, Drains

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• I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

  Mark Twain

  Together, May, Telephones

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• I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

  Julianna Margulies

  Ignorance, Ignorance Is Bliss, Believer

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• Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sex, Ignorance, Oedipus

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 2, 2006), 2005–2015.

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• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Speak, Take Me

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• The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Light, Tissues, Body

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.197, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Promise, Friendly

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 17 (1919)

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• One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind

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• Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Silence, Joy, Purpose

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• "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

  Kenneth Grahame

  Real, Sight, Next Week

  'The Wind in the Willows' (1908) ch. 2.

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• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

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