If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?

— Joseph P. Kauffman

When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It's too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn't leave us feeling special or above the fray. It doesn't take away our problems, which is the ego's idea of happiness. The ego wants no more difficulties: no ore sickness, no more need for money, no more work, no more bad feelings, only unending pleasure and bliss. Such perfection is the ego's idea of a successful life. However, the happiness the ego dreams of will never be attained by anyone. The ego denies the reality of this dimension, where challenges are necessary to evolution and blissful states and pleasure come and go.

— Gina Lake

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

— James Thomson

Grace calls us back to nonduality.

— Bert McCoy

One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.

— Dada Bhagwan

And they all have pretty children,And the children go to school,And the children go to summer camp,And then to the university,Where they are put in boxesAnd they come out all the same.

— Malvina Reynolds

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

— Alexander Pushkin

Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen andwinking at a fourth on her way.“I totally get why some animals eat their young,” Pepper said.

— Jamie Farrell

Achieving your heart’s desire is the key to living a life of bliss, bring your heart alive with a passion for living.

— Steven Redhead

The bliss of blessedness!

— Lailah Gifty Akita