Quotes About Bliss

A dim vastness is spread before our souls: the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision; and we desire earnestly to surrender up our whole being, that it may be filled with the complete and perfect bliss of one glorious emotion. But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant there becomes the present here, all is changed: we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

As the great mythologist Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss and the universe miraculously supports your choices for a happier and healthier way of life. Therefore

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

Focusing consciousness without thought into this dark and powerful center of being felt like stepping into a Jacuzzi of joy, and I recalled the ancient Hindu equation sat-chit-ananda, which roughly translates to existence, consciousness, bliss. It is all one and I am that – the incomprehensible and ineffable bliss of being. In

Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.

Love has neither aversion to pain nor attraction to bliss. Love is just fully itself in both.

Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

One way is to seek the point where the path directed by our greatest bliss crosses that directed by the world's greatest need—that is, what it is willing to pay for.

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

The less you know, the better you sleep.

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.

Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

The skin of the boy's neck tasted foul, bitter with ingrained filth. The hot pulse of blood laced the foulness, drawing the vampire on until the skin broke and fluid burst onto his tongue. Crystal sweetness. A ruby light that out-dazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding: a compulsion so strong that it almost sickened. Wrong to take pleasure in this death, impossible not to... The vampire closed his eyes in bliss as he drank, but the bitter taste remained.