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• This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Brain, Creation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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• I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sacrifice, Soul

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• Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Psychedelic, Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

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• In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Country, Blessed, Tree

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• A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Book, Grateful

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• And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

  Rumi

  Winter, Garden, Thinking

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

  Chelsea Handler

  Cutting, Tough Economic Times, Three

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• Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Pain, Real

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• I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Joy, Ordinary

  "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour", andrewsolomon.com. August 1, 2014.

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• He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Suffering, Complaining

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Arms, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

  Bette Davis

  Certain

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• There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.

  Irina Tweedie

  Love You, Mystical Experiences, Oneness

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• We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Awareness, Timeless

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• The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

  Paul Halmos

  Truth, Learning, Math

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• Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

  Walter Russell

  Happiness, Men, Omnipotence

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• I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Rama, Remarkable

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• When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Essence, Silence, Mind

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• Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Real, Buddhism

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• I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

  May Sarton

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Couple, Mind

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  Jennifer Stone

  Passion, Fire, Poetry

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• We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Respect, Science, Intelligent

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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