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• [T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

  Rajneesh

  Space, Meditation, Peaceful

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• People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, People, Firsts

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• We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

  Errol Morris

  Confrontation, Absurdity, Meaninglessness

  Interview With Werner Herzog, www.believermag.com. March/April 2008.

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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• So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, President, Michigan

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.

  Bill Ayers

  Spring, War, Paris

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.

  Rumer Willis

  Crazy, Love Is, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Receiving Love, Wife

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• You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

  Martin Amis

  Heart, Two, Soul

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Feb 21, 2013

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• Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.

  Mackenzie Davis

  College, People, Church

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Squids, Giants

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's nothing more joyful than having a moment of creative insight and actually creating, or rather manifesting or incarnating your creative insight into actual, physical reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Track

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We spotted Beyoncé, January Jones, Rihanna and Carey Mulligan wearing the label [Karen Walker]. I was ecstatic, but I'm just as thrilled to see interesting girls wearing our product everywhere. It's quite a buzz.

  Karen Walker

  Girl, Interesting, Labels

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• A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Grief, Emotion

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• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  Paloma Faith

  Stupid, Wish, Kites

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.

  Emma Bull

  Kids, Thinking, Differences

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• I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fleeting, Kind, Life Is

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

  Colin Wilson

  Girl, Sex, Offering

  Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”

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• And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

  Carl Sagan

  Long, Tree, Savannah

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

  William Zinsser

  Space, Adjectives, Quiver

  William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). “On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

  Dogen

  Mean, Space, Meditation

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Memories, Moving, Home

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