Quotes About Experience

compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

La mente no puede conocer al árbol. Sólo puede conocer hechos o información sobre el árbol. Mi mente no puede conocerlo a usted, sólo etiquetas, juicios, hechos y opiniones sobre usted. Sólo el Ser conoce directamente.

Una palabra no es más que un medio para llegar a un fin. Es una abstracción. De forma parecida a un poste indicador, señala algo más allá de sí misma. La palabra miel no es miel. Usted puede estudiar y hablar de la miel todo el tiempo que quiera, pero no la conocerá realmente hasta que la pruebe. Después

Observa qué ocurre cuando, en lugar de considerar «mala» una experiencia, la aceptas internamente, le das un «sí» interno, dejándola ser como es.

Una creencia puede ser consoladora. Sin embargo sólo a través de su propia experiencia se vuelve liberadora.

La razón por la que a algunas personas les encanta embarcarse en actividades peligrosas, como el montañismo, las carreras de autos u otras, aunque puede que no sean conscientes de ello, es que los fuerzan a entrar en el Ahora, ese estado intensamente vívido que está libre del tiempo, libre de problemas, libre del pensamiento, libre del peso de la personalidad.

La prueba no está en los argumentos intelectuales sino en ser tocado en alguna medida por lo sagrado.

Each person's life, each life-form infact, represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. And when your form dissolves, a world comes to an end - one of countless worlds.

What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now.

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.

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.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you're taking this moment.

You only experience the present moment, or rather what happens in it. If you go by direct evidence only, then there is no time, and the Now is all there is.

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 the moment

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.

When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Any "story" can be told in dozens of different ways. For that very reason, I believe, every time you go back and reexamine an important chapter in your life, you learn something new about it.

A great climb is a wonderful mixture of difficulty and intimacy.

Fundamental analysis often works, but it often fails. Technical analysis often works, and then it does not work. Economists speak of economic cycles, but none can be found analytically. Traders speak of market cycles; they too cannot be proven. To top it off, the critics of the EMH have been unable to offer an alternative that takes all the discrepancies into account. In few other areas are theory and practical experience in such little agreement.

Estamos completamente imersos neste mundo que é o dos nossos sofrimentos, das nossas felicidades e dos nossos amores. Não sentir é evitar o sofrimento mas também o regozijo. Quanto mais aptos estamos para a felicidade mais aptos estamos para a infelicidade.

Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger and by those that I have passed through since; but I can say without shame that if the sensations I endured during the next few minutes were fear, then may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.

But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our

That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our finite minds cannot grasp that which may not exist in accordance with the conditions which obtain about us upon the outside of the insignificant grain of dust which wends its tiny way among the bowlders of the universe—the speck of moist dirt we so proudly call the World.