Those who have attained spiritual bliss, what was it like in your experience? Does any earthly pleasure even compare or come close to that blissful state?

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Bliss is a funny word. Think about what separates the feeling of bliss, from the feeling of joy. One can be always blissful, but joy happens in a moment and those moments pass.

Now think about the vagueness of ‘happiness’. Joy is easy to nail down, happiness not so easy, and bliss is only understood by those who possess it, and misunderstood by everyone else.

What characterizes bliss is that ‘nothing really bad ever happens’. It’s the satisfaction that comes from paying your mortgage off and retiring, only it’s a spiritual feeling of being embraced by the Lord.

To understand how this works, imagine you have two parts of your mind. One mundane part that worries about stuff like whether you’re going to be able to keep your job, or whether your spouse is cheating on you, or how your body’s breaking down in old age.

The other part of your mind is devoted to thinking about and spending time with the divine. You might be thinking about a particular Bible passage, or some fascinating theological concept, or praying for your near family. In the mundane, we cannot always affect the outcomes of things, and in the divine, the outcomes of things just don’t ever matter, eternal growth an love is the order of the day.

Bliss is when you finally have the realization that the two worlds are really just one in the same. The mind can relax, and the world doesn’t end. Alice in Wonderland’s Red Queen ran as fast as she could, in order to go nowhere, sarcastically remarking that those who ran fast to get places were actually moving slower.

Spiritual bliss is in realizing that ones outer circumstances mirror our inner selves, and the whole thing is just a big charade because the Lord is omnibenevolent.