Quotes About Experience

Myth isn't about factual or historical truth, but about a deeper truth. In ancient times, people saw myth in a very different light—as a vehicle that can transmit and carry a subtlety and richness of experience that simply cannot be conveyed by linear, conceptual forms of language.

True inquiry is experiential

The simplest thing one can say about the experiential knowledge of awakening is that it is a shift in one's perception . This is the heart of awakening. There is a shift in perception from seeing oneself as an isolated individual to seeing oneself, if we have a sense of self at all after this shift, as something mush more universal—everything and everyone and everywhere at the same time.

It's easy to use meditative techniques to suppress our human experiences, to suppress things that we don't want to feel. But what is called for is just the opposite. True Meditation is the space in which everything is revealed, everything is seen, everything is experienced.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

But what is it? What is it like to experience blame? By questioning, "What is this?" consciousness is allowed to get inside of it. So you see, there might be blame, but now it is blame that's conscious. If you try to do something with the blame, such as get rid of it, then you are not really with it.

In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relationship to your experience.

ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Wisdom comes through suffering.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Wisdom comes only through suffering.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

But time growing old teaches all things.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.