The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
