Quotes About Experience

Professor Kimberle Crenshaw saw the dilemma a dozen years ago, but concluded that as long as race consciousness thrives, blacks will have to rely on rights rhetoric to protect their interests.16 There are, though, limited options to those deemed the Other in making specific demands for inclusion and equality. Doing so in the quest for racial justice, though, means that "winning and losing have been part of the same experience.

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own bodies, and isolated most of all from our own horrifying experience, is it any wonder that we are all crazy?

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Memories Distort Observation

The purpose of life then is not to change what one did not create. Rather it is to explore this world, experience it, understand it and by doing so discover the truth about oneself.

you can't read the Vedas; they're meant to be heard. Just the way you can't read the Beatles—you've got to hear them! There

Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.

Teachers are as clueless as students.

Your flesh receives information about the external world through your five sense organs (gyan indriyas): eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin. Your flesh engages with the external material world through your five action organs (karma indriyas): hands, feet, face, anus and genitals. Between the stimulus and the response, a whole series of processes take place in your mind (manas).

What we mean by 'life' is a psychological response to the physical world.

both mythology and philosophy present the same idea: the former communicates through a story, along with symbols and rituals, while the latter uses precise language. Mythology creates a more visceral experience, and so appeals to everyone, not just the intellectual.

Events are events. Humans qualify them as good or bad.

Imagination helps us create concepts, which filter our sensory inputs and ultimately impact our emotional experience. Thus,

All things are good and bad only in hindsight

Probably we each could point to times in our own lives when if we had listened to someone's advice, we, too, could have avoided many problems.