Quotes of: Religious-experience Keyword

How can I use what most excites me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Dhalgren

Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself.

The Dissociative Mind

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Dept. of Speculation

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m either with you forever, or I’m not. I’m not into games or fucking around. I’ve had enough experience to know what to hold onto when I get it.

Entwine

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.

Eurydice in the Underworld

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

Fear of Flying

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

Fludd

I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.

Fall of Night

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

Forgiven

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

The Fault in Our Stars

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Foxglove Summer

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

God Emperor of Dune

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

On Growth and Form

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.

Gilead

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play