It is not their aim to attain bliss - or nirvana - but it is their objective to reduce anxiety and make a new beginning.
Wisdom appears as the virtue belonging to the theoretical intellect, but thanks to justice, which in Ibn Daud's interpretation is a mean that gives everything its due, man is able to attain bliss.
Man can attain bliss, the highest goal to which practical philosophy leads us, through moral perfection, which consists in perfecting his character, and in leading a good family and social life.
I'd seen all of these species pine away on my northern windowsills, but in this frost-free paradise they attained true bliss (and unbelievable size).
Conservative capitalists "are thus assured of nothing more than mildly discomforting taxation before they attain the bliss of their first billion".
His iconography has also widened as he moved away from representing Buddha and bodhisattvas, to representing childlike subjects attaining personal bliss, a result of the artist's spiritual reflection following the death of his father in 1997.
The caterpillar, far from being punished for his indulgence, suffers no more than a mild stomach ache before being transformed into a butterfly". Conservative capitalists "are thus assured of nothing more than mildly discomforting taxation before they attain the bliss of their first billion". For most of the people I spoke to in the course of making the programme, this is pushing it a bit.
It's becoming "filled with the Holy Ghost" in the Pentecostal Christian tradition or attaining yogic bliss through the practice of kirtan, singing the names of God -- Hare Krishna , Hare Krishna
You attain real bliss when you have helped the divine shine through, when you have made the world a little more beautiful, when you have enhanced its joy.
Industry, Kessler tells us, is shifting towards greater complexity, combining optimal amounts of sugar and fat to attain a "bliss point" and developing a versatile range of "inclusion products" to add crunch, blasts of flavour, and dynamic contrasts in flavour or colour, and to enhance the sensory properties of foods that drive desires.
Accompanied by drums and pipes, in masks and costumes, people, often hand in hand and usually in circles, sang and danced, faster and faster, until a climactic state of shared bliss was attained.
