Bliss Quotes - Page 30

• What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

  Paracelsus

  Earth, Holiness, Kingdoms

  "Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time" by Frank Geerk, 1992.

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• Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Leader, Silence

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• How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dancing, Dancer, Flying

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• ...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Writing, Two

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• Humid seal of soft affections,
  Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
  Dearest tie of young connections,
  Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, Ties, Snow

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

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• Fullness to such a burden is
  That go on pilgrimage;
  Here little, and hereafter bliss,
  Is best from age to age.

  John Bunyan

  Age, Goes On, Littles

  John Bunyan (1776). “The Pilgrims Progress: From this World to that which is to Come”

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• Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Mature Love, Mature, Newlyweds

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• In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.

  James R. Swartz

  Good Night, Sleep, Self

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• The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

  Plato

  Forever, Soul, Arriving

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• Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

  Pindar

  Insecure, Errors, Long

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• In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Joy, Looks, Life Happiness

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

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• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  Nagarjun

  Desire, Scratches, Greater

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• Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

  Michael Jackson

  Creativity, Magic

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• A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Mean, Self

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.

  Ted Nugent

  Ignorance, Embarrassing, Dangerous

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• All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that." "No, don't worship that way. Worship this way or I'll kill you - for the good of your soul, of course." Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

  George Carlin

  Christian, Country, Men

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• Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Moments, Eternity

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Peace, Real, Lying

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• Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Healing, Talking

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Literature, Never Quit

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

  Laozi

  Joy, Transition, Looks

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• If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

  Seth

  Effectiveness, Decision, World

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• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
  Nor flight from all distress, but this:
  The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
  And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

  John Piper

  Pain, Order, Grace

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