Spiritual Ecstasy Quotes

#1. A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

John Tavener

#3. My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Carlos Santana

#4. She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

Anne Rouen

#5. Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

James Broughton

#6. I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Alain Robert

#7. Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Deepak Chopra

#8. What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Aberjhani

#10. The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

Herophilos

#11. Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.

Henri Nouwen

#12. Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.

Criss Jami

#13. We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

Anne Frank

#14. Once you have recognized and admitted to yourself that there is a problem and have started to gain some understanding of the nature of the problem, you can begin to build deeper intimacy, love, and connectedness. CHAPTER SUMMARY

Paldrom Collins

#15. There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

Garry Shandling

#16. Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

Jaggi Vasudev

#17. It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

Yehudi Menuhin

#18. Most Westerners today believe in individualism. They believe that every human is an individual, whose worth does not depend on what other people think of him or her.

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix