Quotes About Experience

La literatura de la experiencia religiosa abunda en referencias a aflicciones y terrores que abruman a quienes se han visto, demasiado bruscamente, ante alguna manifestación del Mysterium tremendum

The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience. To

But the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain.

Unowned, the Fourth Brandenburg had an intensity of beauty, a depth of intrinsic meaning, incomparably greater than anything he had ever found in the same music when it was his private property.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large—this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

In religion as in natural science, experience is determined only by experience. It is fatal to prejudge it, to compel it to fit the mould imposed by a theory which either does not correspond to the facts at all, or corresponds to only some of the facts.

It's an affair of the mind; experience and thought have to draw it out.

Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don't select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It's like that poem of Wordsworth's, 'Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.' In

Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

It is the inactivity of self-will and ego-centred cleverness that makes possible the activity within the emptied and purified soul of the eternal Suchness. And when eternity is known in the heights within, it is also known in the fullness of experience, outside in the world.

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

Giovani fortunati! — disse il Governatore. — Non è stata risparmiata nessuna fatica per rendere le vostre vite facili dal punto di vista emotivo; per preservarvi, nei limiti del possibile, dal provare qualsiasi emozione.

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

El arte no es cosa de experiencia; es cosa de imaginación. Javier de Maistre hacía viajes maravillosos alrededor de su cuarto; Beethoven era sordo; Milton cuando escribió el canto a la luz, estaba ciego.

Hay incidentes de un minuto que producen más efecto que un cortejo de un año.

Es preciso haber querido morir, Maximiliano, para saber cuán bueno es vivir

La vejez, esa primera muerte de las cortesanas.

Nadie es todo el mundo, ni nadie es repetido. Parecido, puede ser. Repetido, no. Y eso es la vida: encontrar a los parecidos y esquivar a los repetidos. Lo demás llega o no, aparece o no, duele o no

Empezar a vivir de mayor duele, pero más duele no volver a hacerlo.

La vida no siempre es lo que ocurre, sino las secuelas de lo que parece ser.

Todos somos como somos porque hemos sido algo antes