One of the most moving is a prose poem, "Awakened," which goes in part: "In advanced age, my health worsening, I woke up in the middle of the night, and experienced a feeling of happiness so intense and perfect that in all my life I had only felt its premonition...
But what hooked me was her splash photo: a close-up of her youthful face with an expression of happiness so intense it bordered on insanity.
(very good; quite good; not so good)"; "Compared with the past, do you feel your present life is (very happy; quite happy; not so happy)?"; "Do you sometimes experience moments of intense happiness?
Intense happiness spiked with pure fear.
"Our intense happiness is too sacred to be written about".
They described feeling peace, intense happiness and a sense of the unity of all things.The participants were no strangers to spiritual highs.
Her story -- by turns funny, philosophical and visionary, sometimes tiresome and repetitious, but always in a vivid, authentic voice -- is a tragedy touched by moments of intense happiness.
The weekend was an occasion of intense happiness, a kind of prothalamion, a nuptial song to the marriage of Michael and Deryn later that summer.
He has obviously drawn on some of this to fill his books with the intense happiness or sadness that he has always been able to convey".
You have lost yourself in what you are doing, and for reasons I don't fully understand, this seems to bring intense happiness.
In the positive emotion condition, the women were instructed to spend one minute recalling an experience of "intense happiness or joy, specifically the best time or experience in their life," and then to spend five minutes writing about it.
