Quotes About Experience

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.