Quotes About Experience

College education is highly overrated. Take it from a man who dispensed it.

Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs.

Because these moods and mind states are so amorphous and generalized, we often sink into them and become identified with them, and they become the unconscious filter on experience. At these times, we're looking at the world through colored glasses.

The meditative journey is not about always feeling good. Many times we may feel terrible. That's fine. What we want is to open to the entire range of what this mind and body are about. Sometimes we feel wonderful and happy and inspired, and at other times we deeply feel different aspects of suffering.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad thing come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

There is a revealing phrase in English regarding this mind state: we say someone is "plagued by doubt." Doubt is like a plague that weakens us. When doubt is strong, instead of making the experiment, whether in meditation or anything else, and engaging fully in the experience so that we can see for ourselves whether it is beneficial or not, the mind simply gets lost in endless speculation.

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

What do you do when it rains? The captain answered frankly. I get wet.

You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

How much older can you be at your age?

Csak úgy tanulhat az ember, ha próbálja.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian

Stia totul despre literatura, in afara de modul in care se putea bucura de ea.

Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.

Even people who were not there remembered vividly exactly what happened next.

he had grown too old for fun, he no longer had the time.

That was my first job after graduating (or being graduated from) high school.

It's a pretty satisfying experience, pulling rank. You ought to try it sometime.

In the summer of 1776, the average British soldier was 28 years old with seven years experience in the Army. The average American soldier was 20 and had known military life for only six months.

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.

The subconscious mind takes your fears as a request, proceeds to manifest them, and brings them into your experience.

To believe is to accept something as true, or to live in the state of being it; as you sustain this mood, you shall experience the joy of the answered prayer!