Being happy in your chosen work allows you to get into that great "blissed out" work zone where you are totally absorbed in what your doing, and actually accomplishing a lot more efficiently than if you were dragging your feet.
It would be the greatest bliss.
Or perhaps it's supposed to be a literary version of so-called "Tantric" sex, where the climax is withheld to achieve greater bliss.
Decter was blissfully busy in Washington, and greater bliss followed as members of her own family, her son-in-law Elliott Abrams most prominently, joined the Reagan administration.
Did Newton experience greater bliss when he discovered the laws of motion than Beethoven when he composed his symphonies or Gandhi when he followed the truth of his conscience?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a renowned Persian-writing poet and mystic, in one of his poems conveys the idea that to be split by the Muhammad's finger is the greatest bliss the lowly moon can hope for and a devoted believers splits the moon with Muhammad's finger.
Yet there is no greater achievement, and there is no greater bliss.
They are often interpreted symbolically: Buddhahood representing a moment of enlightened experience, Bodhisattvahood a moment of compassion, Sravakahood a moment of quiescence or renunciation of the worldly, Godhood a moment of great worldly bliss and power, Asurahood a moment of egoistic rage and combativeness, animals ignorance, purgatories suffering.
These features include feeling a sense of "oneness" with others and the universe, a dissolution of the self ("nonduality"), a feeling of awe or sacredness, the sense that time and space have been transcended, an experience of great peace, bliss, and calmness and an overwhelming sense that what has occurred is meaningful and represents a deep truth.
