Quotes About Rapture

Liminal moments. Those moments apart from time when you are gripped. Taken. When you are so fully absorbed in what you are doing that time ceases to exist. Those early morning birthday moments were liminal, Sidda thought. Momma knew how to embrace liminality inspite of (or maybe because of) her emotional acrobatics. Momma taught me rapture.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

Then, when I thought it couldn't get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I'm truly in Heaven.

Music is the most beautiful magic which can mesmerize everyone.

Get drunk with love!!

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

And there it was again, the magic of music.

A feast of smooth oblivion.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Reading books for pleasure, of course, is the greatest joy. No need to underline, press on, try out mentally summarizing or evaluating phrases. One is free to read as a child reads—no duties, no goals, no responsibilities, no clock ticking: pure rapture.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; .... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move, For fools admire, but men of sense approve;

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I know many writers who say that the memory of reading fairy tales is their first, and sometimes only, memory of rapture. I hope that this unpredictable, intense collection inspires you to read fairy tales-and then to read them again.