Ecstasy is the intoxicant
that relieves humdrum existence of its tedium,
transfigures the ego into its quintessence, pure spirit,
and makes people stir and throb and dance into life.
Freedom from precarious mental constructions of banal understanding
is such ecstasy!
Ecstasy flourishes in the love for all beings.
Ecstasy is a communion with all beings
made possible through the loss of the notion of the self.
...a still subtler source of ecstasy;
it consists in touching upon the force that sets the universe in motion.
When one realizes that one partakes of this force,
incorporates this force, delegates this force,
that one is the very expression of this force,
one comes upon the very foundation of one's being:
the will behind one's will.
This is the ecstasy of the dervish:
to feel the power of God operating in one's very flesh!
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
