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• Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Individuality, Contemplation, Stills

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Simple, Smell

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Sacrifice, Giving

  J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Dynamic Spiritual Leadership: Leading Like Paul”, p.124, Discovery House

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• But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

  Khalil Gibran

  Running, Spiritual, Song

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Two

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Reckless

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• I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Unity, Flesh, Saws

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

  Walter Russell

  Selfish, Grief, Loss

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• Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Dhyana, Way

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• The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you exhale. When it inhales, you inhale. You live in it, are not separate, are one with it.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Meditation, Samadhi

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• All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Laughter, Past

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Commitment

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  To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

  Walter Pater

  Life, Congratulations, Flames

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Conclusion" (1873)

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary World, Tempo, Neurotic

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• The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

  George Steiner

  George Steiner (2010). “Grammars of Creation”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

  Georges Bataille

  Love, Taken, Reality

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

  Rita Dove

  Clouds, Minutes, Feels

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Comfort, Asceticism, Height

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

  Mark Hoppus

  Drinking, Marijuana, Voice

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• There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

  William Shatner

  Drama, Texture, Film

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• I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Passing By

  The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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