I was dead for a billion of years and in a few years I will be dead again. I'm not conscious of that state of lifelessness which was before I came to life. And I'm not sure about the lifelessness that is yet to come. Life is only a station between th...
When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not wil...
Ever since the beginning of the middle-class era, with its faith in progress, belief in progress has dominated the upbringing of children too. Childhood now came to be understood only as the preliminary stage on the way to the full personhood of the ...
Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The goal isn't to wallow in the pain or to avoid it, but rather, to move through it. Pain only holds us hostage when we get stuck in it or try to r...
Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure....all lead us to the source of who we are. Only by having intimate contact with this s...
I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
