Bliss Quotes - Page 7

• Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
  Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
  But was a race of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Race

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Commitment, Goal

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• This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Ocean

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• The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Light, Climbing

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.401, Aum Publications

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• Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Hyman Rickover

  Mistake, Ignorance, Long

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• What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

  Isaac Watts

  Flames, Soul, Hell

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• The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Purpose, Speech

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• At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Roots, Together, And Love

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• The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Ocean, Depth, Calm

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

  Thomas Campbell

  Happiness, Pain, May

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.202

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• When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because you are nothing but that pure space, that virgin space within you. Unburdened by anything, that contentless consciousness, that's what you are! Seeing it, realizing it, one is free. One is freedom, one is joy, one is bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Space, Joy

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• The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

  Robert Greene

  Sweet, Sleep, Meditation

  Robert Greene, “Farewell To Folly”

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• Music the fiercest grief can charm,
  And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
  And make despair and madness please;
  Our joys below it can improve,
  And antedate the bliss above.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Pain, Grief

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  Sade Adu

  Kissing, Blow, Thrill

  Song: Never as Good as the First Time, Album: Promise

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• The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Dissolving the name is awareness.
  Dissolving the form is meditation.
  The world is name and form.
  Bliss transcends name and form.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Names, Meditation, World

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.129, Arktos

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• Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Silence, Silence Is

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• How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

  Petrarch

  Littles, Woe, Unhappiness

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• Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

  Colley Cibber

  Pain, Past

  Colley Cibber (1754). “The Dramatick Works of Colley Cibber, Esq; ... in Four Volumes. ...”

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• I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

  Guru Nanak

  Night, Egotism, Constant

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• On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.

  Wes Fesler

  May, Emotion, Flight

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• Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: "I am only a watcher." That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

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• Bliss is not subtractbale.

  Odysseas Elytis

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• In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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• Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

  William Cowper

  Kissing, Soul, Tears

  William Cowper, Nick Rhodes (2003). “William Cowper: Selected Poems”, p.23, Psychology Press

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