Of Experience Quotes
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.
That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.
When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.
Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.
It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.
Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)
Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.
When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.