Sentence examples for ecstatic union from inspiring English sources
The beat of qawwali, for mystical Muslim Sufis, promises an ecstatic union with the divine.
Thus, the sage's ecstatic union is a "moving together with the Dao; dispersing and concentrating, his appearance has no consistency".
We gather she is experiencing ultimate, ecstatic union with the divine, though a profane-minded viewer might be distracted by an underlying erotic tenor.
Known for her bright portrayal of sexuality, Iannone's work celebrates the joy of what she calls "ecstatic union", while also subverting traditional gender stereotypes of dominance and control.
Wagner's vision leads to the ecstatic union of two human beings in oblivion; Messiaen's is strictly non-personal and hardly seems human at all.
Once upon a time, the intellectual and emotional consummation Hampl seeks through art, through seeing — the ecstatic union between subject and object — would already be hers.
Amid this setting the angel hovers above the swooning St. Teresa of Ávila, who is and the illusion is nigh to perfect borne into the air at the moment of her ecstatic mystical union with Christ.
Therefore, rather than overcoming mistaken concepts by circumventing them in a mystical flash of insight or an ecstatic experience of union, the Geluk tradition offers a more sober way to overcome misconceptions, one based on clear, rational analysis.
While theistic Vedantins did not deny the reality of monistic mystical consciousness, they downplayed its significance for, in their view, the ultimate aim of the religious life is an ecstatic and permanent loving union with God (Vishnu).
But union supporters are "ecstatic," said Antony Dugdale, a spokesperson for the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which has been leading efforts to unionize graduate students (Science, 29 November 1996, p. 1461).
The intent and effect of the music were traditional, which is to say ecstatic: to experience the joy of union with the divine.
