And this was the source of my bliss, my total quiet contentment: that we were three people who, if it came down to it, could communicate with one another using only gestures.
The overlapping of these two events made the streets of Austin a joy to wander: crusties, queer crusties, elderly lesbians travelling via pedicab, ancient drag queens and a positive prideful populace plus multiple marching bands and a giant pink unicorn were all sources of pure bliss.
But not in Afghanistan, where the source of the professor's bliss lay in the fact that row upon row of women were taking the exam beside men in the library and in many another unheated hall across the bitingly cold campus.
As horrifying as such descriptions are apt to appear to someone such as Ted Bundy's mother, perhaps all parties can agree on one thing: If justice were to require that one suffer eternally for one's sins, then such suffering would have to be a source of satisfaction, if not outright bliss, on the part of any fair-minded person witnessing it.
I learned more from those six months than any other time in my life about love, bliss, the source of peace, and what a true gift it is to exist.
At the core of his work is the concept of "felicity", that highest state of bliss in which he describes the essence of God as a source of "Delights of inestimable value".
A suicide bomber might have eternal bliss in heaven as a motive for his action, but that doesn't mean that heavenly bliss is "the true source" of his action.
There are moments of bliss.
It's a fraught kind of bliss.
He made an expression of bliss.
(b) transported me into paroxysms of bliss.
