Bliss Quotes (80) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Bliss. Bliss is a stage which is above any emotional state that is characterized as peace or happiness (feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction).
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
~ Joseph Campbell
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
~ Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
~ Deepak Chopra
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
~ George Santayana
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
~ Samuel Beckett
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
~ J. K. Rowling
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
~ Guru Nanak
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
~ Swami Sivananda
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
~ Alexandre Dumas
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
~ Herman Hesse
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
~ Douglas Horton
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
~ Swami Sivananda
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
~ Swami Sivananda
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
~ Deepak Chopra
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
~ Philip Wylie
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
~ Joseph Campbell
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
~ Nathaniel Branden
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
~ Deepak Chopra
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
~ James Hillman
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
~ Alexander Pope
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
~ Stephen Fry
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
~ John Arbuthnot
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
~ Alice Walker
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
~ Joseph Campbell
You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!
~ Sathya Sai Baba
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.
~ Deepak Chopra
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
~ Alice Walker
The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.
~ Joanna Baillie
If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.
~ Deepak Chopra
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
~ Jim Rohn
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.
~ Wayne Dyer
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
~ Joseph Campbell
Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
~ David Lynch
Events bring you small joy, while # existence brings you bliss.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
~ Ramana Maharshi
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
~ Bodhidharma
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
~ Meher Baba
The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.
~ Swami Vivekananda
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
~ John Milton
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.
~ Richelle Mead
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.
~ Brian Johnson
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
~ Wallace Stevens
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
~ Ramakrishna
The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.
~ Jane Kenyon
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
Victoria Glendinning
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
~ Deepak Chopra
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.
~ Sylvia Browne
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
~ Deepak Chopra
Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
~ Adyashanti
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.
~ Gangaji
Look within.
Within you is the hidden God.
Within you is the immortal soul.
Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
~ Sivananda
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
~ Adi Shankara
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.
~ Sylvia Browne
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
~ Deepak Chopra
Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
~ Adyashanti
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.
~ Gangaji
Look within.
Within you is the hidden God.
Within you is the immortal soul.
Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
~ Sivananda
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
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