“Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.
It doesn't last very long.”
Erik (p. 397)
Phantom (1990)
“This longing for the bliss of the commonplace.”
— Thomas Mann, book Tonio Kröger
Source: Tonio Kröger (1903), Ch. 4, and also in Ch. 9, as translated by David Luke
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Context: The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.
“Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.14
“Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
Variant translation: Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you also will have bliss. Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is to the senses, the more will be your love to God.
Saying 806, in Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna (1948) edited by Swami Vireswarananda
Context: Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.
“Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.”
Pierre Beaumarchais book The Barber of Seville
Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout.
Act III, scene vii. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 759-62.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)
“Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Stanza 38
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)