Quotes About Experience

So he went into the wilderness and lived on fruits and nuts. After a long time he returned to his old school, and when he saw the teacher he said to him, 'I think I have learned it. See if I have. Shall I write on this wall? And when he made his sign the wall split in two.

Meditation bedeutet, tief in uns hinabzutauchen und hoch in höhere Sphären aufzusteigen und weiter zu werden als das Universum. In diesen Erfahrungen erleben wir die Seligkeit der Meditation. Wir sollten jeden Tag unseres Lebens in eine Meditation verwandeln. (S. 163)

The sound of water is deep, its form is serpent-like, its color green, and it is best heard in the roaring of the sea. The sound of fire is high pitched, its form is curled, and its color is red. It is heard in the falling of the thunderbolt and in a volcanic eruption. The sound of air is wavering, its form zigzag, and its color blue. Its voice is heard in storms, when the wind blows, and in the whisper of the morning breeze.

Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

we could say that, since this reaction is a matter of degree, your worldview is modern insofar as experiencing other cultures in your own backyard gives you vertigo.

She takes a deep breathe, "Honey, you will hear this many times, but this will be the hardest heartbreak, your first love always is.

Because all endings have a certain a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Like her Joycean hero Stephen Dedalus, she was filled with "Icarian lust": she would seek out her destiny abroad, collect experience for her art, and stay in motion.10 Anything to evade the life not lived, the poem not written, the love not realized. Plath spread her wings, over and over, at a time when women were not supposed to fly.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

Sometimes, she knew, the only difference between poor judgment and a calculated risk was the outcome. In Shar's case, the jury was still out. But she couldn't ignore what he'd learned through his actions.

I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Even back then I understood the real purpose of literature. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

The Jesus Prayer Having had my fill of listening, without acquiring any understanding of how to pray unceasingly, I gave up on such sermons that were geared to the general public. I then resolved, with the help of God, to seek an experienced and knowledgeable guide who would explain unceasing prayer to me, for I now found myself so irresistibly drawn to learning about it.38 —Anonymous, The Way of a Pilgrim

they were taken away before the gold of their innocence had been tarnished by the soil of the world.

Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.