Quotes About Experience

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. —Bill Gates 6 Little Things Mean a Lot It's not the one thousand dollar things that upset the customer, but the five buck things that bug them. —Earl Fletcher Sales and Management Trainer, Volkswagen Canada

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.

This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. (How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.)

It felt as though someone had reached into him and was wresting out his heart. In later life his sorrows would be deep-drawn and bone-aching sad, but never like this. Perhaps only the young can feel such exquisitely intense pain.

Each word she'd set down in the journals was a gift and a wound.

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

Todas las historias tienen muchas versiones distintas. La versión elegida nos revela más acerca del narrador que acerca de la historia.

Don't fret,' the bow said. 'You have many journeys in your future, some of which you'll wish you didn't have to undertake. And as for coming from somewhere far away, you, too, have done that.

Even the most startling adventure, sooner or later, must become routine.

now I sometimes wonder if it might not have been the most worthwhile of the skills I learned on the island.

She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.

Each time I went to a new brother, I'd be a virgin again.

Pain, which is ultimately only like itself.

At an earlier time, she would have read into these gestures what she longed for; now she is grateful and resigned.

We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being born. We are interested in doing something while we are alive, while we are breathing, while we can see the beauty of the snow, the flowers, the blue sky, the sunshine, and the many other things we can imagine.

It could manifest and grow like seeds planted throughout your life, so that life itself becomes the guru. The idea is that life becomes the teacher all the time. This seems to be one of the very important messages of Milarepa's life.

Everything in life is literal, direct, and personal—and very demanding. But that demand seems to be necessary. Your commitment is to be present. You're going to experience life as it is, rather than your expectations from the past or your desires for the future. You're going to relate with life in the fullest sense.

The purpose of the practice of meditation is to experience the gaps. We do nothing, essentially, and see what that brings—either discomfort or relief, whatever the case may be. The starting point for the practice of meditation is the mindfulness discipline of developing peace. The peace we experience in meditation is simply this state of doing nothing, which is experiencing the absence of speed.