Experience Quotes
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.
