Ecstasy Quotes

• What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Mind
  • Mystery

• What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Ecstasy

• And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Believing

• 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.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Friend
  • Discover
  • Ecstasy

• Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ecstasy
  • Shamanism

• Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Solitude
  • Ecstasy
  • Companion

• A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Time
  • Faces
  • Flesh

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