Quotes About Experience

it was like opening up that vast void within all over again. As if during the days since her disappearance a thick liquid had slowly seeped in and filled that chamber, only to have it all sucked out again when she came and went.

He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering. He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.

All you have to do is close your eyes and endure the … intense sensations you're about to experience." "You mean the unbearable pain,"Bryson muttered. "Pain that's going to make me cry.

A distant, faded memory of sucking on pennies as a kid popped into his head.

Frypan has no reason to process or think too deeply about the returning memories. They're not like new revelations, things to which he should respond somehow. They've always been there, inside him. He has already reactedto them. He has been shaped by them. He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.

Usually he went stark naked to experience the full effects of the sensory elements within the Coffin.

felt something

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

We have all been in roomsWe cannot die in.

The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing else in my life ever had. Now it ran nowhere but in my head, but there it ran as though immortally. I could feel it -- I can feel it -- on different places on my body.... In me it still is, and will be until I die, green, rocky, deep, fast, slow, and beautiful beyond reality.

V življenju se nam neštetokrat zgodijo posebna naklju?ja oziroma so?asnosti - tista hipna sre?anja in dogodki, ki v sebi nosijo potencial, da nam popolnoma spremenijo življenje. Mnogo takih trenutkov zgrešimo, ker se morda preprosto prestrašimo tega, kar bi odkrili o sebi, ?e bi se prepustili tej izkušnji.

Thus began a third phase of psychedelic research that continues to this day. Whereas, in the first phase the participant's experiences tended to be controlled and delimited, even if inadvertently, by the experimenter's and the subject's preconceptions, and in the second phase to be more uncontrolled and wide-ranging in scope, the emphasis now was on the selection of specific kinds of psychedelic experience and of specific ways to produce and maintain them.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

synaesthetic

The second component of intelligence involves the elegance of interpretations of the experiences of life.

When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

These experiments demonstrate the conceptual synesthesia connecting our ideas of the concrete experience of space and the abstract experience of time. Our concept of physical motion through space is scaffolded onto our concept of chronological motion through time. Experiencing one-indeed, merely thinking about one-influences our experience of and thoughts about the other, just as the theory of embodied cognition suggests.

Diderot was so flustered by the affront that he only thought of a clever retort as he was walking down the stairs on his way out. The encounter led him to devise the term "l'esprit d'escalier," "the wit of the staircase," for the experience of thinking of a witty comeback only after it is too late to deliver it.

We often forget that the journey is just as important as the end destination, and evolution occurs all along the way.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.