4,138 Quotes About Experience

The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.

Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.

I let new experiences enliven my being and awaken new, amazing parts of my being. I experience life with joy and receive its bliss.

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.

Anyone who has experienced a debilitating sleep disorder knows what it is like to be the walking dead.

We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but the grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

Working in dysfunctional companies was an excruciating experience.