Quotes About Experience

It is time for Sufism to experience a quantum metamorphosis. It is time for a dawn of splendor on the path of Reality to occur.

Each human beings has the sense organs that can experience Spirit; it is just that these organs go undeveloped in most people. The capability of perception is there, but various are the reasons it lies undeveloped. Some people are unaware that these supra-realities exist, others are aware but do not know how to develop the supersensible organs to perceive them, and finally there are those who know but who are afraid.

So many people will debate and argue about the nature of God, but all the philosophy books in the world are no substitute for genuine personal experience with the Real. The Real is the Radiance of Your Existence and the Expression of Everything. For Allah emanates through all Creation in Divine Resplendence and with Divine Grace.

One must engage life on whatever plane is presenting itself to you now.

Gnostics are not bound by a Catechism or a Bible. Gnosticism is ultimately your relationship to the Divine and no one has the right to tell you that your personal experience is right or wrong.

How can you tell if a Chinese poem is a good poem if you do not read the kind of Chinese in which it is written? Certain realms of experience charge an entrance fee. To evaluate certain experiences a person must have encountered that realm of experience in some fashion. He or she must have access to that realm.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.

I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.

Days stolen are always sweeter than days given.

the Zen concept of the beginner's mind, the mind that remains open and ready despite years of training. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," said Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

If you find yourself in enough trouble to be staring death in the face, you've gotten there by a well-worn path.

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.

As we experience the development of personal agency, we come to see that the rejection we fear from the world has already happened.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Don't worry about middle age ?????

Man must realize that improvement of the quality of experience is more important than the acquisition of useless artifacts and material possessions.

But Trump had gone to a military high school, and he felt that made him as much a military expert as if he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.