Bliss

BLISS - see HEAVEN

Everything is perfect. You are shown your inner perection as a tease and then you tumble back to reality. We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's beggar (who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold). Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter the silence of the heart. Divine bliss is why all the suffering and pain on earth is worthwhile - just for the chance to experience this infinite love. (p197) When I was in union I wondered "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?" Then I thought "I want to hold on to this experience forever!" and that's when I started to tumble out of it. God's unspoken message was: "You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are already here." (p200) (Eat, Pray, Love)

As we gradually realize what the Omnipresence of God eally means, transfiguring every phase of ourlives, turning sorrow into joy, age into youth, and dullness into light and life - is the bliss we know in that experience is still God Himself, who is knowing that bliss through us. (Sermon on the Mount, p182)