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.
In demand by resident owners, much of his body and spirit work is intuitive, and he often gifts pearls of wisdom as you're rocked and wooed into a state of high bliss.
The highest bliss is located in our soul.
I have a "high bliss" personality (after all, part of my first name is Joy!) and have adored soaring in the stratosphere for years.
"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.
On the radio, where it has been ubiquitous all summer, the million-selling single "Where Are Ü Now" by Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber is four minutes of high-tech bliss: a sweet-voiced mixture of longing and recrimination, a lonely plaint with a dance beat.
