Quotes About Experiences

Seeking miraculous experiences simply for the sake of experiencing the miraculous makes us spiritual drug addicts who simply want to get "high." This book is about learning to love God, not learning to join a spiritual circus. Enthusiasts need to be especially careful to remain true to seeking and loving God rather than searching for new experiences. When we seek "spiritual experiences" for their own sake, they can actually become, and be used for, evil.

In his last years, he made himself available to counsel people distressed about their supernatural experiences. As he wrote to one of them: it is not a matter of disturbances emanating from outside, but of disturbances emerging unconsciously from within you. . . .

As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually, ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the force of its own being.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person.

everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.

Life takes place in restaurants.

Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Although I do not mean to imply that all of these children will be severely "damaged" by these experiences, the most moderate estimates suggest that at any given time, more than eight million American children suffer from serious, diagnosable, trauma-related psychiatric problems. Millions more experience less serious but still distressing consequences.

We'd found that these developmentally appropriate enrichment and therapeutic experiences had to be provided repeatedly and consistently in a respectful and caring manner.

Childhood experiences literally impact the biology of the brain.

The developmental process is very front-loaded, meaning that the majority of brain growth and organization takes place in the first years of life. Now, this doesn't mean that the brain won't change after early childhood, but early life experiences do have a very powerful impact on how we develop.

The example of Mr. Roseman involves traumatic experiences that took place when he was twenty-four years old. If these experiences changed the brain of a twenty-four-year-old, imagine the impact of trauma on the brain of an infant or toddler—how much more pervasive the effects would be.

What this also means is that early experiences will necessarily have a far greater impact than later ones.

His original negative experiences with whiteness, reinforced by many related experiences of overt and implicit racism at school and in the community, stayed with him. The earliest relational experiences are the most powerful and enduring.

you're a white child who spends no time with children of color, you don't have any personal experiences to help build those important relational associations.

these children need patterned, repetitive experiences appropriate to their developmental needs, needs that reflect the age at which they'd missed important stimuli or had been traumatized, not their current chronological age.

Every day we "fill our reward bucket" with various sources of reward—and not every day is the same (see Figure 4). Some days will be rich with friends and family; other days you may fill your "reward bucket" by volunteering at a local food kitchen. And some days, we are left empty, unfulfilled.

means that cultural-sensitivity training, which may help get at the intellectual elements of learning, needs to be coupled with real experiences and real relationships. That is what will help change you. It's hard for many people to do, and it certainly doesn't fix the whole system, but it's a start.

first a, then b, then c. And as we've said, the way our brain processes our experiences is sequential. All sensory input (physical sensations, smells, tastes, sights, sounds) is first processed in the lower areas of the brain; the lower brain gets first dibs. This means that before any new experience has a chance to be considered by the higher

a la hora de comprender cualquier problema clínico relacionado con el cerebro es obtener una historia precisa de las experiencias del paciente.

do think that, in most cases, neglect and trauma co-occur. But they cause very different biological experiences and can have very different effects on the brain and the developing child. Some people