Experience Quotes

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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the… — Jack Kornfield
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung
Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom. — John Grinder
Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest… — Sharon Salzberg
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything… — Stephen Levine
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. — Huston Smith
The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled… — Johannes Kepler
No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able… — Paulinus of Nola
Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But… — Festo Kivengere
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The… — Pope John Paul II
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the… — John Green
If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in… — Joel Osteen
If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness.… — Joel Osteen
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove… — Albert Einstein
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the… — Andrew Carnegie
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.' — Goswami Kriyananda
Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the… — Goswami Kriyananda
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. — Gregory Bateson

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