Of Experience Quotes
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.
Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.
The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.
You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.
Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.
The Super Bowl is something you can't put into words. It's such a great feeling. I wish I could put it into words, but you just have to be there to know the experience.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.
I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that very few people have.
There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.
It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.
When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.
I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
