❞ There is no state more satisfying than journeying on the path toward one’s dream. ❞
❞ This way of living – where everything that makes your soul sing must be done immediately and wholeheartedly – has paid off beautifully. It’s the only kind of work that truly nourishes.. ❞
❞ Who among us doesn’t carry some kind of “mother-issue” inside! It seems so natural and easy to criticize the mother whose inner organ we once were — after all, she is so very close. ❞
❞ We become the person who would have saved us in childhood. ❞
❞ Everything that comes out of someone’s mouth, even if the words seem to concern another, really speaks only about the speaker themselves — expressing what is going on inside them at that very moment. ❞
❞ This process of ever-expanding awareness is an endless journey. ❞
❞ A child’s soul chooses exactly those parents who can provide them with the most fitting sufferings in this lifetime — on the very theme their soul has chosen to explore and experience deeply during this incarnation. ❞
❞ Working on oneself is always worth it — life simply becomes easier when you’re no longer blindly flailing and sowing destruction around you. Through treating others kindly, your own life becomes brighter. ❞
❞ Perhaps this has been so since our amoeba days — each new being finding itself in certain circumstances and striving upward toward something brighter, better, more uplifting. Maybe Darwin had something to say about that? ❞
❞ You can sense it, even see it in people’s faces — how the trauma of war, flowing through generations, gradually loses its grip. As the decades pass, children are born more able to relax, to open, and to allow themselves to be sensitive, playful, and lithe. ❞
❞ Yet no one’s behavior can truly be judged until you’ve walked their entire life journey in their shoes. ❞
❞ A child’s love for their parent lies unfathomably deep in the soul, and in that depth dwells also an endless capacity to forgive them everything. ❞
❞ If we wish to live truly free and happy lives, it is our duty to work on ourselves until we can let go of blaming our parents. And not only that — we must let go of the wish to change them. And not only that! We must even let go of pitying them. What should remain is only respect for their souls’ journey. ❞
❞ Forgiveness seems to be a lifelong journey — you may think you’ve reached a good place and are free… but after a while, you notice that your heart can still soften more, warm more, release more. ❞
❞ How much destruction, in our own lives and our parents’ lives, could have been avoided if people had known how to do something as simple as talk to one another. ❞
❞ Beside an epically heroic parent, a child may find it all the harder to discover their own calling.❞
❞ I can’t imagine a greater or sadder sacrifice than a life lived without joy or happiness. ❞
❞ No matter how busy or tangled up you are in your own life — take that moment to talk with your child. Ask them: “Is anyone bullying you? Is anyone hurting you?” ❞
❞ Music, art, and literature once again became the saviors and refuges they have always been through the ages. ❞
❞ Even a mass murderer is, after all, a victim. No one who is truly happy ever commits such acts. Everyone is born into this world as an innocent, bright-eyed baby. No one reaches horrors like that without first having experienced, time and again, abandonment, rejection, dismissal, and a lack of love and care. ❞
❞ The universe gently took me into its palms and lifted me out of it all — even if it might not have looked that way at first glance. ❞
❞ Back then, in our part of the world, no one had yet heard of love for oneself. Nor had we heard that every spoken word carries such power that it can create — and destroy — entire worlds.❞
❞ A person must make sure that their self-realization is in place. It means you must be content with yourself. If you are not, then you are of no use anywhere. ❞
– Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ The human soul, the ego, goes into a state of rest (between lives) and begins to plan the next one. The time and place of our birth — we ourselves have chosen them, not God, not the Devil, not some heavenly office. /…/ ❞
– Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ Everyone creates their own God — exactly the kind they are capable of. God does not interfere in human life. He has given a part of His omnipotence to man, and if one learns to use it wisely, one becomes omnipotent. The strong govern the planets; the weak are governed by them. ❞
– Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ To reach higher spirituality, let life flow — and flow along with it as part of it. Do not struggle against the current. ❞
– Laozi / Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ I consider myself a great egoist — in that by striving not to think negative thoughts, I’m doing myself the greatest favor. That’s what matters most. And if I do myself no harm, I do none to others either. ❞
– Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ The more each of us improves our own energy, the more we benefit the whole — and that, indeed, is our life’s purpose. There is no other purpose. ❞
– Gunnar Aarma, interview, Finding Ecstasy
❞ Never let a single opportunity go untried, no matter how impossible or unbelievable it may seem! Never lose hope!❞
❞ I am content and happy. I have my health, my youth, and a wild hunger for life. I think it’s wonderful to live on planet Earth. She is my favorite.❞
❞ A child raised in a safe environment finds it easier to to know how to be — and to feel worthy. ❞
❞ At nineteen, that natural lust for life was further fuelled by the euphoria of a girl who had risen from a wheelchair and thanked her happiness in reverence each day for being granted the chance to experience life in all its sweetness! And she still does. In life, one should never take for granted the fact that they are not in a wheelchair. ❞
❞ I feel wildly alive. ❞
❞ After all, life is made up of moments. ❞
❞ Saldejums, motherfuckers! ❞
❞ The ideal woman should possess, perhaps, a faint tendency toward perversities. ❞
– J. Randvere, Ruth / Finding Ecstasy
❞ It’s not always easy to tell where the line runs between reality and delusion — where exactly the borders of the parish lie. ❞
– Dr. Ennett, Finding Ecstasy
❞ Maybe I’m making it all up. But then again, a person makes up their whole life — and everything within it. ❞
❞ My classmate Villem’s answer to whether there’s anything in the world besides pornography: “Yes. Pornography and linguistics.” ❞
❞ In ballroom costumes we danced to waltz, drum and bass, and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and in the end, cake was shoved into the open mouths waiting below the stage! Wild. ❞
❞ Estonian music is such that men play their instruments with one hand and scratch their balls in their pockets with the other. ❞
– Gunnar Graps, Finding Ecstasy
❞ Nothing better could have happened to us than being right here, right now! ❞
❞ The most important things in life are God’s creations — Nature… Peace of mind… Freedom. /…/ The most important thing is to do good… until, at last, you no longer even know how to do harm. ❞
❞ The situation… is now out of control… ❞
❞ (Losing all our money that day) only added a flavor of adventure — no money, no worries about money. ❞
❞ You could feel the beginning of a great, thrilling adventure in the air. The night was soft and just cool enough. ❞
❞ There’s no place for a sulky face when hitchhiking. /…/ Hitchhiking is lightness, adventure, the joy of freedom! You simply cannot let that beautiful roadside moment go to waste while waiting for something better to come along! ❞
❞ We are destined to remain forever on the road, never truly arriving anywhere. For the place of arrival — it does not exist. ❞
❞ A university isn’t a rabbit — it’s not going to run away! ❞
❞ There’s no need to panic — there’s always some crazy soul who will eventually give you a lift. ❞
❞ It’s good to stay open and ready for anything. To forget your plans and, with a quick turn, dash off in the opposite direction if that promises something more exciting. ❞
❞ The air was thick with the frenzy of feverish desire, carrying the scent of life burning at full throttle.❞
❞ The universe seems to shower us with abundance — it feels as though even traveling with both hands in your pockets, you couldn’t possibly starve to death.❞
❞ I feel happy — time no longer exists for me, because it simply doesn’t matter anymore. I am free! ❞
❞ Any city with a market is a good city. ❞
❞ It’s always worth asking — you never know! ❞
❞ It almost seems suspicious that even the wildest dreams you dare to dream just keep coming true. Where will that lead us in the end! ❞
❞ …When every moment demands readiness for anything, it’s quite pointless to make fixed plans. Better to set things quietly in motion and simply see what unfolds — noting everything along the way, flowing with the adventure, without wasting energy on worry or resisting life. ❞
❞ How good it feels to be naked when the Moon looks at me like that! I swim along the golden path she’s drawn on the water for me. Alone. Beneath and above me stretches the bottomless darkness. It’s beautiful. A little eerie — and therefore even more beautiful. ❞
❞ The bay is now behind me, the open sea ahead. I climb onto a wooden platform floating on the water and stretch out, droplets gleaming on my curves, the gentle breeze caressing me… I feel jubilation… I think, right now… I may be beautiful! In that moment, it wouldn’t have been hard to simply take flight. ❞
❞ Girls, believe me — Ibiza is far too crazy for you. ❞
❞ How I love to watch from the sidelines this game that life plays with us! Everything falls perfectly into place when you just stop resisting with all your might! ❞
❞ In general, we were known as the crazy Estonians — no one had ever seen real live Estonians before — who didn’t drink, smoke, or take drugs, yet tearing off the dancefloor like wild things. ❞
❞ Perhaps what flows in your veins is some kind of natural ecstasy? How else to explain that ecstatic state for which normal people need pills? Are you all like that in that strange Estonia of yours? ❞
❞ I had never seen grown-ups cry simply because a disco had ended — as happened at Space Closing Party. ❞
❞ It’s good that life doesn’t let us get bored — sometimes you’re carried in loving arms, then suddenly thrown to the ground again. Otherwise, you might get too used to being carried and grow arrogant. ❞
❞ All our strongest wishes and desires have the curious habit of coming true. That’s a powerful force — and one to handle with care. ❞
❞ I’ve noticed that whenever you sincerely trust in higher powers, everything turns out in the best possible way. The key is to be deeply grateful for all that you have — your health, your colorful, eventful life, your chance to grow, explore, play with beautiful boys, and share your joy of life with others — and then you’ll be sent even more of it. Believe me. I’ve tested this on my own skin. It’s all one big game. ❞
❞ When you stop playing, it’s time to go to sleep. ❞
❞ If there is a place in this world where one might be overcome by the urge to bite an unknown woman’s navel, it is Ibiza in August… ❞
❞ Welcome to paradise… because this is where it truly is. ❞
❞ Massage. Swim. Sun. Repeat. ❞
❞ Opening my eyes to the morning sunlight, the first thing I saw was the boundless blue of the sea, and nothing was missing from paradise. Around noon, soft ambient, jazz, and funky house drifted up from Sa Trincha at the foot of the hill, rolling over the sand and bodies. After my morning swim, it was pure pleasure to rest my eyes on the beautiful people arriving on the beach below. The sea rocked, the sun caressed, and curious little lizards didn’t mind dashing playfully across me now and then… ❞
❞ They say this mystical island spits out those who don’t belong — and draws in, like a magnet, those who do. ❞
❞ Life goal: to someday become that kind of mischievous, sparkling-eyed pensioner. ❞
❞ They say anyone who eats figs every day lives to a ripe old age. ❞
❞ Ibiza will not miss a single chance to shake us to the core! ❞
❞ If you keep looking at me like that, I’ll have to kiss you… ❞
❞ In these months, all we’ve really needed were blankets, toothbrushes, two pairs of pants, a shirt, sandals, a camera, and a journal /…/ …and yet we’ve never been freer, lighter, or happier than we are now. ❞
❞ Everyone should have, at least once in life/…/ to find themselves again, or at least to remember a few real things. In nature, one perceives the true essence of things and understands what truly matters — what is genuinely needed for life and happiness. ❞
❞ Carpe diem, baby! ❞
❞ When you soar high with someone, something always happens that makes the moment even more magical — as if the universe adds its own touch of enchantment wherever people have already managed to invoke it. The law of attraction. ❞
❞ The air was so charged it was crackling around us. I could feel, almost physically, my body producing ecstasy again! ❞
❞ That afternoon in Space felt sacred. A true ceremony, during which hearts opened and lives were lifted to heights whose memory and feeling would remain under their skin until their last breath. ❞
❞ Right here and now, the most important event in the world is taking place — the happening called “My Life.” Ibiza teaches you that you must do only that which truly makes you happy, and nothing else. Your only duty in this world is to be happy. Here and now. ❞
❞ Freedom within oneself is the most important thing. ❞
❞ You must love yourself — and never be ashamed or afraid to show it. ❞
❞ You just have to jump — and stop overthinking. The greatest enemy in this world is fear. ❞
❞ Do only what makes you happy. ❞
❞ Always keep love in your heart and never let your mind control it. The heart is what matters most. Always listen to it… ❞
❞ C’mon, girl! Hit it! Hit it for socialism! Hasta la Victoria, siempre! Until the Victory! ¡Hasta la Victoria! ❞
❞ Out of pure childlike trust in life, courage, and endless gratitude grew our currency — the most valuable thing in the world. The realizations born from that experience — about how the Universe works — remain under my skin to this day. ❞
❞ La vida es mierda… life is shit!