Direct-experience Quote by E.M. Forster

“I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.”

— Rachel Brady

“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh,…

— Lahiri Mahasaya

“I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to…

— Michael Crichton

“Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've…

— Michael Crichton

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

— J. G. Ballard

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation,…

— Denis Kearney

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each…

— Li Keqiang

I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in…

— Molly Bloom

“A wandering knight wambling in an endless road Thinking to himself Where the others are? Taking care of what? Who am I? but a…

— Rixa White

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

— Brennan Manning

“[Pierre] was seized by terror lest he had aready in some way bound himself to do something that was evidently wrong, and that he…

— Tolstoy, Leo