Experience Quotes - Page 36

• The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Horse, Peace, Voice

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• Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

  Brad Warner

  Learning, Buddhism, Feelings

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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• Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

  James H. Austin

  Simple, Everyday, Facts

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.12, MIT Press

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• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  Chris Prentiss

  Simplicity, Mind, Enlightenment

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Vanity, Illumination

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

  Roy Davis

  Consciousness, States, Fulfilling

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• Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.

  Jean Smith

  Freedom, Learning, Oneness

  Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Harmony

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• Experience is never at bargain price.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Bargains

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• Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Lying, Everyday, Copying

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ideas, Personal Experiences, No Idea

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Hands, Firsts

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• All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Self, World, Conflict

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

  Tom Hoover

  Reality, Analysis, Culture

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• Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Ideas, Action

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• My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Knowledge

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Long, Soul

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• The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Apples, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Regret, Pleasure, Left

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• The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World, Absence

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• Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

  Amy Lowell

  Self, Sorrow, Three

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Would Be, Speak

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, 1677.

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Generations, Lasts

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• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Running, Play

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• Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

  George Santayana

  Done, Sake, Accusation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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