Art Alexakis

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.

American Musician

Brie Larson

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

American Actress

Hermann Hesse

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.

German Novelist

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

Indian Philosopher

Deepak Chopra

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

American Speaker

Alison Krauss

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

Wilkie Collins

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

English Novelist

Nathaniel Branden

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

American Psychologist

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

American Author

Edward Young

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

English Poet

Often signals a level of happiness beyond everyday joy, used for special occasions or intense feelings.

Nuanced Emotion

Use 'bliss' to describe peak moments in life, emphasizing the highest degree of happiness.

Positive Extreme

'Bliss' isn't used for mild or moderate happiness, reserve it for when you mean something very profound.

Not Commonplace

In religious contexts, 'bliss' refers to ultimate happiness in the afterlife rather than mortal life.

Religious Context

'Bliss' in religion is an abstract idea, often unfathomable or beyond full human comprehension.

Abstract Idea

Different religions and cultures may have unique interpretations of what 'bliss' entails.

Cultural Differences

This definition highlights a carefree state due to lack of knowledge about negative realities.

Unaware Contentment

The ignorance-based bliss might be fleeting as it can end once the truth is revealed.

Temporary State

The phrase 'ignorance is bliss' is often used ironically to signal that avoiding the truth isn't ideal.

Irony Usage

 while you are describing a classic ritual and they helped me understand that rituals are all about transformation we marry for example with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude misery loneliness to one of eternal bliss I'm not sure why you're

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 Chile's Patagonia region here adventurers find bliss amongst the dramatic terrain that includes glaciers fjords and mountains the centrepiece of the park are the three granite towers that stand tall over the otherwise flat Patagonian play throughout the park the

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 We were looking for bliss in a blah day and purpose in a perpetual pandemic. But languishing is not unique to a pandemic. It's part of the human condition. Two decades of research show that languishing can disrupt your focus and dampen your motivation.

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 wonderful they imagine themselves like again in ancient athens walking with socrates and having these interesting discussions or sitting for meditation and having all these experiences of bliss and oneness with the universe and wonderful

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 that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you, and you have only bliss to look forward to. But he said that would not be nirvana, because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the joy from the past.

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 And it's time to join those up and to hang on. And if we are to move towards our collective bliss it's time we shed our focus on the physical and instead embrace the virtues of the heart. So raise your straws if you'll join me.

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 to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals.

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 buddies have become my best friends through late night ted-like conversations so tango tango offers a feast for the senses a workout for the body and a bliss for the psyche not bad for a double life thank you

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 youngest orphans here she's just seven months old and just like human kids she has her own security blanket which also keeps her warm bliss she's gorgeous but the story of her early life is absolutely tragic

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 security blanket which also keeps her warm bliss she's gorgeous but the story of her early life is absolutely tragic