True Bliss

I did not have an inkling of what bliss was until a little over a year ago.  Although I had  experienced joy and happiness with others in my life and internally in meditation, it all paled in comparison with bliss.  Bliss is a spontaneous arising of a happiness so powerful that it stops the mind and fills the body.  It is a state of experiencing pure consciousness, pure awareness.  When others come to mind during this experience of bliss, the feeling toward them is one of pure, unadulterated love.  As I reflect on what love has felt like even before bliss arose a year ago, there has always been at least a tiny bit of this bliss.  True bliss is the energy that powers love.