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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.
— Bliss
Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.
Follow your bliss.
Ignorance is Bliss
Ecstasies enjoyed by religious mystics are usually called religious experiences no matter what the nature of the ecstasy or the trigger inducing it.
But such a sacred and home-felt delight,I never heard till now.
The sum of earthly bliss.
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
It is known from the treatment of mentally sick priests that an involuntary ejaculation often occurs at the height of religious ecstasy. Normal orgastic gratification is replaced by a general condition of physical excitation, which excludes the genitals and, as if by accident, brings about a partial release against one’s will.
A shoemaker who loses himself in mystical ecstasy and begins to think of himself as a saviour of the people, sent by God, will inevitably cut the soles the wrong way and mess up his stitches. As time goes on, he will be faced with starvation. It is precisely by this process, on the other hand, that the politician becomes strong and rich.
The spider's most attenuated threadOn earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires,My lot unequal to my vast desires.
Thin partitions do divideBut bliss still bordering upon woe.
The hues of bliss more brightly glow,Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.
Alas! by some degree of woe That never feels a pain.
And my heart rocked its babe of bliss, To keep it nestling there.
Bliss in possession will not last;They were,—they are,—they yet shall be.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
I know I am—that simplest blissEven to the meanest wretch they scorn.
We thinke no greater blisse than suchThe same as be they should.
