Word: blissfully
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...book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle, 54, describes how he passed through suicidal depression to spiritual bliss. Imagine his bliss when he discovered that his book had been endorsed by Oprah. Her relentless touting has helped Tolle's book build a cult following since its publication four years ago. Now in its 20th printing, with 800,000 copies sold, it has spent four months on the New York Times best-seller list...
...local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes good, the couple settles into domestic bliss and she forgets her dream of becoming a doctor. Aurora promptly dumps him with a farewell note; the boy soaks himself with petrol and uses the note to ignite it. She is wracked with remorse and everyone blames her; he recovers, only to realize he always had a fancy for another girl...
...many undergraduates. In very rare instances, however, this fatuous game exhibits an entirely new character—a serious one. Revelry meets sobriety. I often try to avoid playing Do, Dump or Marry in its transmogrified form; I don’t want to abandon my care-free bliss. But sometimes anger and disgust swell within me and, try as I might, I cannot continue to be a jester. My former, humorless self is resurrected... this may sound vague. Why don’t I offer an example. Recently, a friend suggested: “Do, Dump or Marry: demonstrators...
Stopover has had moments of sheer unbelievable bliss. There are also moments in painting when you think, ‘I’m in the studio. Hey world, you can do your own thing, I’m going to be here.’ This [Stopover] has really been the most exciting project, but also scary and hard. The Impossibles was hard, but in a very predictable and safe way. The Impossibles was hard in the sense that doing twenty minutes of exercise is hard. Stopover is much scarier. In Stopover we have this paintball scene; it?...
John Womack Jr., Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, said that he had traded books with colleagues in Colombia who might have associations with terrorist organizations...