Quotes About Experience

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Design is not only about imagining an exterior form. It is even more centrally about the internal spatial experience that gives rise to form.

Lately, she'd had the overwhelming sensation that there were no single, seminal moves that completely altered the course of one's destiny. Instead, life just seemed to be a series of small mistakes, which you continued to make over and over again.

For the practitioner, the understanding of wisdom and compassion—and the inherent tension between the two—is not to be resolved on a theoretical level, but to be experienced in one's own mind and body. In this way one finds emptiness and compassion to be mutually supportive rather than mutually contradictory.

experience. Direct perception into one's own experience allows a practitioner to become free of the concepts of self or no-self, dharmas or no-dharmas. This awareness or direct perception has meant, for practitioners, an expansion of self-imposed boundaries of "self " and a merging, so to speak, with the true or universal self. It cannot be cautioned too often that in pure experience, linguistic terms do not suffice. The Buddha also gives this warning in this passage.

inspire people to move from a totally information-based orientation toward the transformattive integration of insights from the wisdom traditions with their own experience.

A healthy mind is a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind comes through wisdom, not only knowing the truth but experiencing it. From

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul. I

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

The one who attended a matter and disliked it, is as the one who was absent; and whoever was not present in an affair yet was pleased with it, is as the one who witnessed it.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.