A Quote by Simone Weil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Simone Weil

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Simone Weil
French - Philosopher
February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Milan Kundera

What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Oprah Winfrey

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Robert M. Hutchins

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Anne Lamott

If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

Indira Gandhi

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

Wilferd Peterson

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Eckhart Tolle

The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Anne Lamott

I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

Lena Olin

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Georges Bataille

To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.

Rajneesh

Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

Deepak Chopra

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