Quotes About Experience

With disillusioned smiles, we allow our young people to tempt or try out their passion, desire, and sensorality, knowing that one day they will be like us, weary and well behaved out of obligation.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

A large dose of niacin is one of the most rapid and reliable ways to pull a person out of a bad trip on psychedelic drugs.

That Holy Other with which all spiritual persons are in relationship (that which I call God), is nothing other than that which satisfies the deepest longings of the human race. The spiritual relationship is a relationship of love-love beyond all telling. Spiritual experience is the experience of God's transcendent love, God's overwhelming and universal concern for every single human being.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Statisticamente tutto si spiega, personalmente tutto si complica.

El tiempo de leer, como el tiempo de amar, dilatan el tiempo de vivir.

Quels pédagogues nous étions, quand nous n'avions pas le souci de la pédagogie !

Vous ne vous rendez pas compte, monsieur, j'ai douze ans et demi, et je n'ai rien fait.

La prima cosa che un bambino impara non è l'atto, ma il gesto dell'atto.

Giardinaggio, prole (i bambini di Marianne e i nostri figli adolescenti), fricassee di funghi, musica, non si finirebbe mai di elencare le piccole gioie che alimentano l'istinto di vivere.

Jak skvÄ›lí jsme bývali pedagogové, když jsme se o pedagogiku pranic nestarali!

La vita non è un romanzo, lo so... lo so. Ma solo lo spirito del romanzo può renderla vivibile.

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

Bisognerebbe vivere a posteriori. Decidiamo tutto troppo presto.

La nostra voce è la musica che fa il vento quando ci attraversa il corpo (be', quando non esce da sotto).

Tuttavia, pur non essendo un atto di comunicazione immediata, la lettura è, alla fine, l'oggetto di una condivisione. Ma una condivisione lungamente differita, e tenacemente selettiva.

La lettura non ha niente a che fare con l'organizzazione del tempo sociale. La lettura è, come l'amore, un modo di essere.

Few objects awaken as much as the book the feeling of absolute property. Fallen in our hands, the books become our slaves.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

The origin of human consciousness as well as the mystical experience may have been linked to humanity's use of visionary plants. In the Rig Veda, one of the earliest collections of Vedic Sanskrit hymns from India, there is frequent mention of a plant called soma, which, when drunk, produced marvellous seemingly entheogenic effects.

No science can explain the drawn-out phases of a large-dose ibogaine trip, the twenty-hour passage from vision to insight, experienced almost universally.

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.