“The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.” InspirationalStatesBuddhismEnlightenmentSense Of HumorEcstasyIronicPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.” StatesMomentsLightPracticeMeditationBuddhismMonthsDaily LifeEcstasySpillsMeditation Practice Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.” MeanStatesBodyMovingEnlightenmentEndlessEcstasyPerpetual Author:Frederick Lenz
“The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.” StatesMomentsPainPleasureParticularGoldenEcstasyPupilsGolden Moments Book:Enemies of Promise Source: Enemies of Promise
“By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.” ThinkingStatesEmotionTiesEcstasyConfessionMysticalRaptureMystical ExperiencesThinking Less Book:Inner Experience Source: Inner Experience
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.” HumansKindStillsStatesMomentsFacesLostAudienceAbsolutesOneselfFleshCinemaThat MomentEcstasyHuman FacesGarbo Author:Greta Garbo