Bliss Quotes - Page 19

• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.

  Guru Nanak

  Numbers, Grace, Mind

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• Sleep in the bliss of God.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Sleep

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• With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Powerful, Practice, Creative

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• Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Practice, Desire, Source

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• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 03, 2015

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• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Men, Self

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• In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.

  Geoff Dyer

  Writing, Profound, Perfect

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

  Cat Stevens

  Hate, Thinking, Goes On

  Song: Peace Train, 1971

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• Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'

  Warren Farrell

  Believe, Book, Reality

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Hell, Moments

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
  Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
  Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
  And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, Liberty, Delight

  Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44

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• My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Ocean, Eye, Floating

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• ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sleep, Hands, Ego

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Silence, Soul, Flow

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• To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.

  Allan Pease

  Men, Needs, Partners

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• Do what gives you bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving

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• I don't get my bliss by listening over and over to people in the street thinking, "Boy, is it that good?" Even though every time I hear it that's what I think. But I get it in human situations. There is this little voice that is going, "The reason you're able to enjoy your life now is that you made it in rock'n'roll and people are giving you free visas all over the place. Dude, you are being spoiled".

  Iggy Pop

  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

  Alan Cooper

  Dream, Memories, Heart

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• I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

  Katy Lederer

  Play, Quests, Forests

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• One man's bane is another's bliss.

  Robert E. Howard

  Men, One Man, Bane

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• Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

  Glen Duncan

  Zenith, Description

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.257, Vintage

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• Tales of heroes end in bliss.

  Tanith Lee

  Hero, Ends, Tales

  Tanith Lee (2003). “Mortal Suns”, p.175, The Overlook Press

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• Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rest In Peace, Ignorance, Forever

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 16, 2017

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