Quotes About Experience

embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.

Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional — a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only from direct experience.

There are no ordinary moments!

Azt szokták mondani, hogy Utayás csak egy van, de ösvény több. Azt kívánom, haladj jól a saját ösvényeden, a távolság nélküli utazáson, melyen együtt utazunk.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Il mondo là fuori, disse indicando l'orizzonte, è una scuola, Dan. La vita è l'unico , vero insegnante. Ci offre molte esperienze, ma se l'esperienza da sola portasse saggezza e realizzazione, gli anziani sarebbero tutti felici, sarebbero tutti maestri illuminati. Bisogna scoprire le lezioni nascoste nelle esperienze.

Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all.

So honor those who speak from experience—embrace wisdom where you find it—but weigh external guidance against the wisdom of your own heart.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses — it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy!

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference.

The young remember most deeply

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered. My three local years on Heaven's Gate, almost fifteen hundred standard days, allowed me to see, to feel, to hear ? to remember, as if I literally had been born again. Little matter that I had been born again in hell.

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell.

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things—

the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unselfconscious flow of little things – the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

I've never been in a place that seemed as mean or shitty, and I've spent time in some of the great sewer cities of the world.

He felt the scrotum-lifting tension he always experienced when he was an obvious target.

Silenus's true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter age, the Consul knew, the odds were that the poet was quite mad. As

To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.

I have made command decisions based upon insights which would not have seemed totally logical outside the context of my experience and training.

eyes too filled with the sharp edge of experience to hide their pain...