Quotes of: Spiritual-experience Keyword

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitar...

Tom Wolfe

You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via drea...

Love

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

Coma House

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Chime

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Classical Myth

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

The Charlemagne Pursuit

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Conversations with William Styron

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Chain Mail: Addicted to You

The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

The Dosadi Experiment

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

The Dosadi Experiment

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