Ecstasy Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

  Criss Jami

  Mind, Absurdity, Intellectualism

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

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Arrogance, Way

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• Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Teacher, Buddhism

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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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• Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can sit joyously alone for months, for years. He does not hanker for the other, because his own inner ecstasy is so much, is so overpowering, that who bothers about the other?

  Rajneesh

  Art, Years, Meditation

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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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• Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Different, Flavor

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• Were spirits free from mortal mesh
  And love not bound in hearts of flesh
  No aching breasts would yearn to meet
  And find their ecstasy complete.
  For who is there that lives and knows
  The secret powers by which he grows?

  Christopher Brennan

  Famous Love, Heart, Secret

  Christopher John Brennan (1966). “Selected Poems”, Sydney, Angus

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• Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."

  Olivier Clement

  Spiritual, Momentum, Elements

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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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• 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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• There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Soccer, Football, Everyday

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• There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Essence, Holiness

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.100, Anchor

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• Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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• When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

  Walter de La Mare

  Dream, Song, Flower

  Walter De la Mare (1902). “Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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• The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Inspiration, Men

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• I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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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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• I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Watches, Naked, Ifs

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

  Lenny Henry

  Powerful, Thinking, White

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• You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!

  Courtney Love

  Wise, Crazy, Journey

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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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