Quotes About Experience

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

Seek the pleasure in what you're doing, rather than in how it might ultimately benefit you.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Have you lived 75 years, or have you lived one year 75 times?

We must bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed, instead of always memorizing and categorizing.

I've often cited the Buddhist proverb "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Although it is not always evident at the time, all of our experiences in this life, even those that are painful, have a true and necessary purpose in our soul's journey.

There is just one life for each of us: our own. — Euripides

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Whatever reality is there - and you can see most of your realities as the result of your choices - you can make a glorious experience, or you can be victimized by not tuning in, and by judging it in unreal terms. Think of the logic here. How foolish ever to allow yourself to be upset or immobilized over things when your upset will do nothing.

If you agree too easily, you will be little trusted; because the sage always confronts difficulties, he never experiences them.

You are always experiencing things in your own unique and special way.

We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and

We are all essentially spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. This is our essence. This is where we come from.

Am I going to be in the same office doing the same thing? Am I going to live 90 years? Or am I going to live one year, 90 times, over and over again?

I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand.

experience life on the active side of infinity, knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being

knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being having a temporary human experience, rather than the other way around.

There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences. Turning your now into total fulfillment is the touchstone of effective living, and virtually all self-defeating behaviors (erroneous zones) are efforts at living in a moment other than the current one.

I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?

You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.