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• Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feet, Bird, Height

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.719, Modern Library

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• Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

  Rajneesh

  Unlimited Potential, Silence, Joy

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• There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

  Rollo May

  Joy, Creation, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Love Is

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• Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Giving Up, Mean

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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Teaching, Engineering

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• The last of Summer is Delight -
  Deterred by Retrospect.
  'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
  Enchantment's Syndicate.
  
  To meet it - nameless as it is -
  Without celestial Mail -
  Audacious as without a Knock
  To walk within the Veil.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Enchantment, Delight

  Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

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• The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gone Away, Samadhi, Existence

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• Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Suffering

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• The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Ceramics, Pieces, Pottery

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.71, 谷月社

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• In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Cinema, Film

  "Interview with Director Werner Herzog. 'I Am Clinically Sane'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 12, 2010.

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• Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, People, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.73, Criss Jami

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• The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Ironic

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• The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

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• Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hurt, Buddhism

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• What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Energy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation Practice

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Giving, Meditation

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• Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Arrogance, Way

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• Together we all live every moment
  On the very brink;
  The razor’s edge
  Of ecstasy or disaster.

  Scott Hastie

  Together, Razors, Moments

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• The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

  Alban Berg

  Magic, Logic, Results

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• One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

  Joel Salatin

  Assets, Farms, Sheer

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