Quotes About Experience

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming"with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness"of that moment?

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Don't ask your mind for permission to enjoy what you do.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A

Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

nobody can go through childhood without suffering emotional pain. Even if both of your parents were enlightened, you would still find yourself growing up in a largely unconscious world.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain.

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience

Intellectual agreement is just another belief and won't make much difference to your life. To realize this truth, you need to live it.

I think" is just as false a statement as "I digest" or "I circulate my blood." Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.

know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.