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Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Men, Thinking

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?

Rajneesh

Marriage, Roots, Togetherness

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My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Michael Jackson

Dance, Giving, Goal

Twitter post from Dec 19, 2017

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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

Al-Ghazali

Inspiration, Mean, Names

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Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

Jane Ellen Harrison

Inspirational, Life, And Love

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Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay -
the world survives into another day,
and I'm thinking about eternity.
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

Bruce Cockburn

Thinking, Looks, World

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It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

Jamie Hewlett

Mistake, Moving, Hands

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You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

Neville Goddard

Blessed, Men, Creative

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As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

Deepak Chopra

Motivational, Spiritual, Anger

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What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next to nothingness?
Hell.

Umera Ahmed

Pain, Next, Hell

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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Johan Huizinga

Dream, Laughter, Children

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Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.

Goa Gil

Dance, Spiritual, Thinking

"Interview by Chaitu of www.goatrance.free.fr". www.goagil.com.

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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

E. B. White

Reading, Mind, Produce

E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.171, Cornell University Press

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With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Meditation, Mind

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

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The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.

Rumi

Drunk, Mad, Worry

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She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lakes, Sorrow, Earth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.72, Wordsworth Editions

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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

Virginia Woolf

Excitement, Mrs Dalloway, Said

Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

William Shakespeare

Desperate, Violent, Hamlet Love

1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet. Hamlet, act 2, sc.1, l.103-5.

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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

Thomas Ligotti

Memories, Dark, Hysteria

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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Carson McCullers

Heart, Causes, Cold

Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

Karl Marx

Religious, Water, Political

Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

Joseph Heller

Men, Lust, Needs

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.

Rajneesh

Dream, Spiritual, Integrity

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Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain. You will not have your honeymoon, it is impossible. You will not know the sweetness that existence is full of and the ecstasy.

Rajneesh

Mind, Impossible, Life Is

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