Our Experience Quotes

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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. — George Eliot
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or… — Sharon Salzberg
Thatâ€™s what the human brain is there forâ€”to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly… — Aldous Huxley
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.… — Tara Brach
Women have been driven mad, â€œgaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,… — Osip Mandelstam
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death… — Pema Chodron
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We… — Natalie Goldberg
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesnâ€™t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody… — Pema Chodron
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These… — C.S. Lewis
Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences. — Robert B. Parker
The next time you lose heart and you canâ€™t bear to experience what youâ€™re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see… — Pema Chodron
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience… — Paul Tillich
"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged." — David W. Orr
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our… — Pema Chodron
What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences. — Tony Robbins
We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience. — Ernest Holmes
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself — Martin Luther
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite… — Ann Hood

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