To burn always with this hard gem-like flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

Art and Religion are then two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that for a minute the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

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

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.

Men die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth the delight the ecstasy of it you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy rather which we have only to be still to experience.

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.