ecstasy

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Ecstasy comes from Greek and means standing out of yourself, coming out of your body. Letting go of controlling everything in an intellectual way and letting your body be possessed by music, singing, writing, dancing. It's letting yourself BECOME what you are doing, letting go and emptying your body to merge with music, to let words flow through you, to let you voice fill you and the space around you, surrender totally and unconditionally.

Only if you are able to surrender, if you are not afraid to be possessed, engulfed, devoured, if you are not afraid t give up your identity, your personality, become a nobody, a mere instrument, an object, only then you will achieve ecstasy. You cannot make a decision to enter into that state, you cannot force it, plan it. It's in the sweet vulnerability of surrender, it's in letting down your guard, exposing your delicate underbelly of emotions that it can come to you. It's the fearless, the passionate, the mad that will be granted ecstasy.