My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.
Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
Patience is born when we create a pause between our experience of a feeling and our response to that feeling.
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.
It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.
The merit of 's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency. . . He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
Leaving from your body might sometimes be an unpleasant experience for you, if that is what you have built your identity around
. . . 'exist because there are no longer any , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.
It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
In my experience, I’ve found myself to be inexperienced. But at least I found myself. Some people spend their lives searching in vain.
Experience counts for something. I count with my fingers. I could count on you, but you’ve only got one finger for me (the middle one).
It was a dumb mistake, sleeping with her, and I learned from the experience. Still, I’d gladly make the same mistake tonight if she calls.
You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is limited?
