Quotes About Experience

Readers always find themselves in a book, in one way or another. Reading is a completely egotistical pleasure. Unconsciously we expect books to speak to us. An author can write the most farfetched or implausible story ever, but there will still be readers who will still be readers who will say: 'I don't believe it: you wrote the story of my life!

La vida tiene una dimensión interior, con historias que no se materializan en la realidad, pero que no por ello dejamos de vivir.

Mais il faut avoir vécu des années dans le rien pour comprendre comment on peut être subitement effrayé par une possibilité.

A veces, en medio del dolor, llegamos a dudar de la realidad de lo que hemos vivido.

Al fin y al cabo, apenas lo conocía. Qué más daba, sencillamente se limitaba a vivir uno de esos momentos tan escasos en los que el mañana no importa; en los que solo la fuerza del presente decide nuestra vida.

Se alejó, visiblemente en el mismo estado que aquel día de abril de 1992 en que vio una obra de Samuel Beckett en un teatro alternativo

J'éprouvais alternativement la nécessité de ressentir l'intensité de la vie, et un sentiment profond de vacuité. Alors, tout me paraissait dérisoire et absurde.

Minutos que uno se graba en la memoria en el momento mismo en que los vive. Segundos que son nuestra futura nostalgia.

Dans son lit, il sut qu'il ne serait pas capable de s'endormir : comment aller vers le rêve quand on vient de le quitter ?

La auténtica medida de la vida es el recuerdo.

Quand la cinquantaine arrive, on est trop vieux pour être jeune. Mais on est encore un peu jeune pour être vieux.

Se puede medir la felicidad por el paso que lleva cada uno por la calle.

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Whatever humanity I had has been fucked out of me with a giant heavenly dildo." The man gave Dew a wink. "But I guess you'd know about that, right?" "Don't

Leaving the self out of Christian spirituality results in a spirituality that is not well grounded in experience. It is, therefore, not well grounded in reality. Focusing on God while failing to know ourselves deeply may produce an external form of piety, but it will always leave a gap between appearance and reality. This is dangerous to the soul of anyone—and in spiritual leaders it can also be disastrous for those they lead.

Looking back, I find it remarkable how easily I accepted ideas about God as substitutes for direct experience of him. It took me a long time to begin to know God through my heart and not simply my head.

Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known—whether this is God or one's self.

Knowing God's love demands that we receive God's love—experientially, not simply as a theory. Personal knowledge is never simply a matter of the head. Because it is rooted in experience, it is grounded in deep places in our being. The things we know from experience we know beyond belief. Such knowing is not incompatible with belief, but it is not dependent on it.

Similarly, people who are afraid to look deeply at themselves will of course be equally afraid to look deeply at God. For such persons, ideas about God provide a substitute for direct experience of God.

Transformational knowing of God comes from meeting God in our depths, not in the abstraction of dusty theological propositions.

The stronger your grasp of every second of your life, including the paradoxical experience at the bottom of the spectrum, the stronger you are.

Experience is a body of memories we use (on purpose or implicitly) to guide us. But we don't experience an event merely by living through it. To experience an event, we must live through and remember it.