Quotes About Experience

We sit as a practice for how we will act throughout the day. Mindfulness, however, involves more than sitting. It is moment by moment non-clinging to ego. It is the simplicity that results when we experience reality without the clutter produced by the decorative arts of ego.

Time seemed to fly-- as happens, they say, when you are having fun. I guess sometimes clichés were actually coined for legitimate reasons.

The tragic youth was going down on me (...) I've been right and I've been wrong Now I'm back where I started from Never looked over reality's shoulder

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with, and the life we live with after that.

MY CHILDHOOD IS FILLED WITH GREAT MEMORIES, in fact, great ones are the only memories I have. I talked to a shrink about it, and we pretty much agreed that unpleasant things must have happened when I was growing up, but that I had just repressed them. I asked him how long I could go on repressing them, and he said maybe forever. That worked for me, so I left therapy before I could blow it and get in touch with my true feelings.

Since the advent of the iPhone, people seem to think it is more important, and maybe more fun, to photograph and record life rather than actually live it. I see that as unfortunate for them, but it has definitely been a boon to police investigations everywhere.

The solution of rabbinic Judaism, however, served only to create another, more serious dilemma: How can the individual fulfill God's will without experiencing Him directly as did his ancestors? If all of the force of religion is based on the compelling revelation of God to his predecessors, as it is transmitted by the Torah, why should not the experience of God be available to him as well?

Chicago delighted me," he wrote, "because it was just as chaotic as my own mind, and I found my own preposterous state of consciousness reflected and exaggerated at every turn.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

Poetry became his favorite genre; he memorized poetic lyrics and recited them often. For him, poetry organized and crystalized experience as no other type of language did.

Whitman wrote articles on almost every topic, storing up images and impressions that would later be useful to him as a poet.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.

I go back, this time to a swankier neighborhood.

I am grateful now to have it all—even the worry and the pain.

kids come along with me when I drive down the

think it's a poetry that comes out of the stuff of the poet's personal life, but he's trying to render this experience in more general and inclusive, or what used to be called universal

Maybe some people love the thrill of being possibly rumbled at any moment. Who knows? At any rate, the big day has finally arrived ... the sword has now fallen. Did it live up to what you imagined? Did you get the ecstasy you craved – some death and rebirth experience, perhaps? Well, now you have the chance to be reborn, as far from us as you can get.

Teaching has its virtues, but it is often bad for the teacher.