Of Experience Quotes

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.

It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.

All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration.

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.