Quotes About Experience

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.