I've named him Keats, because he reminds me of the sonnet: "O Solitude!…it sure must be/Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, / When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee".
At first I thought it was my imagination, yet as I continued to read it was unmistakable: "Those who rate sensual pleasures as the highest bliss will find them a path to hell".
Wagner's libretto is soaked in water from start to finish; Act I begins with a sailor hailing the ocean, and Act III ends with Isolde preparing "to drown, to sink — unconscious — highest bliss!" Viola, likewise, dwells at length on the sensation of immersion.
The ten realms are all the states in which a sentient being might find him or herself in the Buddhist universe, from the lowest ignorance and suffering to the highest bliss and enlightenment.
The highest bliss is located in our soul.
I was in a state of ecstasy for about a week and realized what I was looking for, in terms of medication, was inside of me; it was a higher bliss.
The Neo dance philosophy is all about maximizing awareness, finding new levels of consciousness and achieving powerful levels of high energy bliss, contentment and a prolonged feelings of overall happiness.
"Silver Apples of the Moon," created, in 1967, specifically for a recording on Nonesuch Records, will provide a fix of analog-era high-tech bliss.
If you happen to have Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi on hand to play the diva and the heavy, you get high-low bliss, like a B movie directed by Rembrandt.
"High school was bliss for me," DuBuc said recently.
