Quotes About Experience

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.