Quotes About Experience

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

One lives but once in the world.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.