Quotes About Experience

So vipashyana experience and practice is absolutely necessary for a person who follows the Buddhist path and really wants to understand the dharma.

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as the are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. you find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

As a reasonable person who is perturbed by your relationship with the so-called bread-and-butter world and uninspired by the prospects presented by this ordinary version of reality, you may begin to think of the possibility of getting into a different and higher realm of discipline and experience.

There are odd things in life, and one of them is pain. The odd thing about pain is this: you can't avoid it. You just can't. Maybe if you lived in a sealed room your whole life you could, but that would be lonely and cause you emotional pain, and it might mean you've been kidnapped, so...just don't live sealed rooms. Also...you can't avoid pain.

Dating is the gym class of life, not the advanced calculus class.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, "Wow, that was an adventure", not, "Wow, I sure felt safe." - Tom Preston-Werner

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John ' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

Ours was a typical grief, and yet I say it without believing it. When death becomes personal, then there is nothing typical about it.

We who know both sides know that in giving up the belief in deity we have lost nothing of value, nothing that need cause us a single regret. And on that point we certainly can speak with authority; for we have been where the Theist is, he has not been where we are.

A newly-born child has no volitions, only reflexes. It is only when experience has supplied us with an idea of what may be done that we will it shall be done. This consideration alone is enough to shatter the case for the supposed freedom of the will. [3]

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO SCHOOL. THIS WILL PROBABLY BE A ONE-TIME-ONLY FEELING.

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

One of the things that makes you feel good is to get out into nature—go walking, go hiking, go swimming in the ocean, or wherever you live, in a river or a lake, experience the beauty of America, experience how America is such a sacred place. Everywhere you go in this land, our people have been there and they have said, "This place is sacred.

A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.

Sergeant Jack Webster, an Oklahoman whose adventure in running across an enemy minefield in France at such a speed that the mines exploded harmlessly to his rear was a story told to every replacement upon arrival in the company.