Quotes About Experience

How could we stop being us, even when we leave the jeweled cinema?

I won't read this after I've written it, any kind of past life pains me now

In those days we weren't always singular, but rode the sea of consciousness like bubbles overlapped.

I'm overwhelmed by your reality.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

A sex isn't very deep but its surface is armor ironmasked like certain poetries I can't use how be what you are what's experience but a becoming acceptable to the keepers of surface say this University So glad I don't have to write in the styles of the poetries I was taught they were beautiful and unlike me positing a formal, stylized woman. But I am the poet, without a doubt. Experience is a hoax.

I don't have a casual life, but exist to be possessed by misery, grace, or laughter.

Todos projetamos nossa realidade no mundo exterior, criando juntos, de fato, um universo microcósmico de experiência ou esse 'reino dos céus' dentro de nós, que é único, apesar de ser partilhado com os outros.

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

To feel the sun and see the orange light leak through the skin of my eyelids is copacetic-squared. Sight

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Peut-on changer de paysage extérieur sans déranger son paysage intérieur? Les voyages qu'on fait en soi-même? Aujourd'hui, je suis retournée dans mon passé, puis je suis partie vers un avenir qui prenait forme quelque part à la lisière de ma pensée. Mais je me suis aussi rendue dans un endroit rarement visité : l'innocence du moment présent.

What I see is a woman who is not thinking about observing life but experiencing it.

When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the power of speech. I would return to London bereft of all vocabulary, communicating in grunts and diddums talk. You feel a fool asking, for instance, Professor Sir Alfred Ayer if he would care for an icky bitty more soup in his ickle bowl.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Storytelling itself is an activity, not an object. Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience….Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we're doing, is not the only possibility. —Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life (2006)

I feel a little bitter that most non-disabled people do not have this dilemma of whether they will exchange their privacy to be seen as human. I am also aware that I am not alone in this experience, and that many marginalized people are put in the position of having to prove their humanity every day.

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me".