Quotes About Experience

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.

in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.

What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.

More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.

No poem is ever written for its story line's sake only, just as no life is lived for the sake of an obituary. - Joseph Brodsky

Had art indeed depended on experience as much as the critical profession wants us to believe, we'd have far more – and far better – art on our hands than we do. A poet is always the product of his – that is, his nation's – language, to which living experiences are what logs are to fire

Stories are so strong because they are alive. A story is like someone you trust to take your hand, lead you on a journey, and then bring you back home again.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Love is a friendship set to music.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

If you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself.

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)