Sublime
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Ecstasy is bodiless. It is experienced as overwhelming delight and/or inspiration.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
We feel high and connected and powerful. That is a heck of a pleasurable buzz, but it’s not ecstasy. That’s adrenaline.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
But as a culture, we consume far too much of this faux ecstasy.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
That too much elation is a chimera.
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Certain highs, produced by taking synthetic or natural drugs, or alcohol, or feeding an addiction to food, sex, work, or social media (to name but a few), make us feel as though we’ve transcended our struggles. But that feeling is temporary. At best, it leaves us needing more of that high
Vex King • Healing Is the New High
This stress-induced euphoria is nothing other than our prehistoric “fight-or-flight” response to extreme danger.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
EUDAIMONIA. (noun) from the ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία: The ideal state of human flourishing. To go beyond happiness, health, and prosperity, to living a meaningful and virtuous life.