Quotes About Experience

Emotions: As humans, we all come equipped with emotions. I know as well as any most of us grew up with very little role modeling or training about identifying and communicating feelings. I, myself, have four degrees and none involved training on how to identify and communicate feelings.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets high expectations for the reader- in that you are expecting him to pick up on it- and this is a way of respecting your readers. And when you respect your readers, they will come to respect you.

Had he ever told Cindi about that junior high crush? Probably. What did it matter? There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That's what junior high is for.

Coming to worship the Lord in the "beauty of holiness" somehow gets translated into the "warmth of niceness." Almost entirely gone is the experience of being run through, pierced by the numinous.

The writer must know something about the world outside books—whether his or the books of the others. At the same time, he must also be thoroughly acquainted with the world inside books. Words on a page are part of real life. They cannot be substituted for the whole, but they cannot be taken from it either.

I have wanted to "make books" since around the sixth grade, and I published my first book when I was in my late thirties. My point is that the time in between was not wasted—submarine service, marriage, college, bringing up three kids, starting a school for them, and so forth. This kind of life experience is not distracting you from your appointed task of writing. It is, rather, the roundabout blessing of giving you something to say.

Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the fabric of the story, and as this happens, the reader is woven in, right alongside the description. In giving advice to writers, E. L. Doctorow once said that good writing should communicate more than the mere fact that it is raining. The reader should feel rained on. A

Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.

The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

En conclusión, la experiencia del yo relativo está ligada a la existencia de una coherencia global del continuo mental que puede ser algoritmizada. Esta coherencia global algorítmica constituye el tema básico de la personalidad. Cuando este tema básico es identificado y observado se provoca un estado de conciencia en el cual desaparece el yo y toda conceptualización.

La experiencia humana, en todas sus cualidades, pertenece de base a la misma conciencia que cualquier experiencia cualitativa, en todos y cada uno de los seres sensitivos. Se requiere de un cerebro humano para activar la experiencia humana, porque solamente en los niveles sintergicos que el campo neuronal humano puede adquirir, la conciencia adquiere la complejidad suficiente

La sintaxis de los procesos mentales, asociada a la experiencia del yo, es un proceso, por lo que la tesis de este libro conceptualiza al yo como una idea que se ve reforzada.

Esto lo expresaba muy claramente Vivekananda cuando afirmaba que "nosotros no sabemos lo que existe allá afuera, lo único que conocemos es nuestra respuesta".

La sensación del mundo físico como entidad externa, independiente y autónoma, se desmorona para quien se percata de esa unidad, y en lugar de una realidad externa inerte y fría, el mundo se vislumbra como lo que es en realidad, un conjunto de procesos no desligados de la propia conciencia.

No existen dudas ni necesidad de explicaciones. Todo se explica a sí mismo en la vivencia de unificación y en su sabor dulce y luminoso.