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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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• Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Dimensions

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

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• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

  Criss Jami

  Mind, Absurdity, Intellectualism

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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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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• My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

  Pete Hamill

  Book, Ambition, Weather

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• Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Energy, Flow

  Twitter post from Jan 9, 2010

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• But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for.

  Rick Jarow

  Real, Doe, Radiance

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• The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfect, Lifetime

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• Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sometimes, Painful

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• Where the world ends
  The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
  Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
  The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
  The roots of the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Roots, Miracle

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.122, Hayes Barton Press

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• The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Solitude, Companion

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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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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• 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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• There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Together, Reason, Humans

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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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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• Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Meditation

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Arrogance, Way

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• I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Dance, Thinking

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• Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Real, Anxiety

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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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• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Perception

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• If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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

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