Bliss Quotes - Page 4

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Waking, Sober

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

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• For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• I know I am--that simplest bliss
  The millions of my brothers miss.
  I know the fortune to be born,
  Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

  Bayard Taylor

  Brother, Missing, Born

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• The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Bed, Crowns

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• The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, Light

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

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• Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

  Brad Warner

  Beauty, Practice, Missing

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

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• Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

  Sivananda

  Buddhist, Practice, Meditation

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• Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

  Robert Burns

  Brother, Son, Affliction

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.54

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• The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

  Louise Colet

  Mirrors, Sometimes, Surface

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• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

  Sivananda

  Pain, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

  Wilkie Collins

  Believe, Heart, May

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• Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

  Kin Hubbard

  Ignorance, Neighbor, Foolish

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• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  Barbara Feldon

  Way, Permission, Given

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, National Parks, Nostalgia

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  Victoria Principal

  Ignorance, Cases, Ignorance Is Not Bliss

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• Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

  Guru Nanak

  Religious, Wife, Faithful

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• By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Men, Infinite, Range

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• If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

  Carter Burwell

  Fun, Ignorance, Ifs

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Ocean, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.178, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Ocean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

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• I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Pain, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3689, Manonmani Publishers

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• You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Sheep, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.39, New World Library

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