“Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.” KnowsInspirationalBodyDiesBornHurtBuddhismEcstasyIt HurtsComprehensionLife Hurts Author:Frederick Lenz
“Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.” ThinkingFirstsDiesFriendshipCupsEcstasyDrank Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.” WayEndsSelfDiesAcceptingDespairAnxietyRageSurrenderEnormousEcstasySubmitAnother WayWill PowerFreedom And Happiness Author:Ellen Willis