Ecstasy Quotes

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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• Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Meditation, Boost Self Esteem

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• An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

  Mark Twain

  Feels

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1290, GENERAL PRESS

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• Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Seductive, Melancholy

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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Literature

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• Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Space

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• Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Moving, Right Direction

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

  Jack London

  Alive, Paradox, Mark

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Drunk, Becoming, Divine

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• Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  John Updike

  Life, Experience, Doe

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

  Simone Weil

  Attention, Awareness, Highest

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.515, Routledge

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• And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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• Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Drunk, Mind, Quality

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• That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Differences

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• This is the very ecstasy of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101

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• Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, People

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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• The word `ecstasy` is beautiful; it simply means `standing out.` Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind; getting out of the whole structure in which you have lived - not only lived but with which you have become identified. Standing out of all this, just a pure witness, a watcher on the hills - and everything is left deep down in the valley.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Personality

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• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Wall, Giving, Sensual

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

  Robert Browning

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.667, Wordsworth Editions

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• Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Fellow Man, Leaving Me

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1464, Harvard University Press

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