Bliss Quotes - Page 5

• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

  Samuel

  Hell, Cursing, Let Me Go

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• Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

  Brad Warner

  Brain, Moments, Wave

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

  Caroline Knapp

  Friday, Dog, New York

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• We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Cups, Enchanted

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• Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soil, Felicity, Grows

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• At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Moments, Darkness To Light

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

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• Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Feelings, Fleeting

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Freedom, Ignorance

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• The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Eternity, Function

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.85, Anchor

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• Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Following Your Own Path, Steps, Finding Your Path

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• Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
  Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

  Alexander Pope

  Contentment, Ease, Action

  Alexander Pope (1752). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays”, p.124

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  Stephen Fry

  Happiness, Success, Ignorance

  "QI: Albania". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The hues of bliss more brightly glow,
  Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Hue, Woe

  Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.62

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• To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

  John Arbuthnot

  Soul, Desire, Aspire

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.25

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• A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.

  Tichina Arnold

  Men, California, Long

  "Exclusive: Tichina Arnold On Her Past Love Mistakes and Preparing to Remarry". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. March 27, 2012.

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• When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Nice, Air

  Chogyam Trungpa (2013). “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three”, p.761, Shambhala Publications

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• The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Night, Thinking

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• The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Heart, Night

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• After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Peace, Iron, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3104, Manonmani Publishers

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• All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Real, Acceptance

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• Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Celebration

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• Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Laughter, Pain, Expression

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