Quotes About Experience

Your soul sees no missed opportunities. In reality every road you traveled offered up an experience as a gift, and as the complex fabric of life wove itself, each experience added to your growth.

El fin de la cualidad multidimensional del cerebro es permitir que cualquier experiencia ocurra.

Humans are not biological robots. We live for meaning, for the personal value of every experience. The body metabolizes our experiences and sends the message to every cell, while the mind, in its own domain, processes experience in terms of sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings. Nothing fuses the whole-system effects of love and non-love like the human heart, which needs to be understood as more than a physical organ.

Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.

El cerebro es un proceso, no una cosa; un verbo, no un nombre.

la lección más importante es que la muerte debería ser tan dinámica como la vida, una experiencia que evoluciona a medida que ahondas en ti mismo.

If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.

When you begin the process of finding God, the inner world reveals itself. God experience will start to become the norm, not in a spectacular way like a wished-for miracle but in the far deeper way of transformation.

Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.

churchgoing, as I saw it, was primarily social. It showed that you conformed to the norm of religious worship, which means that you accept groupthink. You define God secondhand, through revelations given to prophets and teachers many centuries ago. Spirituality is firsthand experience. It takes you on an inner journey from hope and faith to real knowledge that no one else has spoon-fed you.

No sabrás lo que tu cerebro puede hacer hasta que establezcas sus límites e intentes traspasarlos. Sin importar con cuánta eficiencia utilices tu cerebro ahora, hay una cosa segura: es la puerta hacia tu futuro. Tu éxito en la vida depende de tu cerebro, por la simple razón de que vivimos todas nuestras experiencias gracias al cerebro.

Innocence is our natural state, before it becomes covered over. What covers it over is self-image. When we look at ourselves, even when we're trying to be completely honest, we see an image built up over many years, in layers that are complexly woven together. The lines and wrinkles that develop in a person's face tell the story of past happiness and sadness, triumph and defeat, ideals and experiences. It is almost impossible to see anything else.

Genes are not the fixed, stable, immovable entities I was taught about; they are fluid and dynamic, and their activities are altered by every experience, thought, word, and action in a person's life. So, why not direct your experience to influence your genes in the most positive ways?

A man born blind from birth will never know the meaning of darkness because he has never experienced light.

Your brain is remodeling itself right now. It doesn't take an injury to trigger the process—being alive is enough. You can promote neuroplasticity, moreover, by exposing yourself to new experiences. Even better is to deliberately set out to learn new skills. If you show passion and enthusiasm, all the better.

Ya sea que lamentes algo de tu pasado o te preocupes por algo del futuro, estás provocando cambios en tu cuerpo. En otras palabras, pasas gran parte de tu vida metabolizando tiempo. (...)¿qué pasaría si no tuvieras una historia? Tu vida sería mucho más simple y más natural. No tendrías una imagen pública que defender. No tendrías miedo del mañana porque sin una historia que seguir aceptarías cualquier experiencia y la dejarías ir.

Every physician in practice has experienced the phenomenon of patients who die from their diagnosis.

All energy comes from one source and returns to it. When I look at a rose, a tiny flicker of infinity is rising from the source to experience itself.

Cualquier cosa que experimentes hoy (tu café matutino, el amor que sientes por tu familia, una idea brillante que se te ocurre en el trabajo) ha sido hecha a medida específicamente para ti.

Why are some particles arranged so that we feel we are having a subjective experience?

The mind, spirit, and soul are all nonphysical realities and are not easily differentiated with language derived from sensory experience.

the more you experience your true nature, the closer you are to the field of pure potentiality.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

Nada solidifica la memoria como las emociones. Cuando somos niños, aprendemos sin esfuerzo porque los jóvenes se muestran apasionados y entusiastas ante el aprendizaje.