Quotes About Experience

many of the great spiritual explorers were often viewed as rebels in their time. They did not blindly follow the prevailing religious beliefs and traditions of their day. Instead, they pursued personal spiritual experience.

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

Wine comes in at the mouthAnd love comes in at the eye;That's all we shall know for truthBefore we grow old and die.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.

An old man's eagle mind.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

Politics How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

I did J.E.S.T. here when I was with the First

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long.

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.