Human Experience Quotes - Page 5

• All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Truth Is

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• One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

  Mary Blakely

  Inspiring, Children, Soul

  Mary Kay Blakely (1989). “Wake Me when It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back”, Crown

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• There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

  Angeles Arrien

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Religious

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

  Paul Kurtz

  Atheism, Foundation, Needs

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• All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Soul, Looks, Body

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• What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

  Barbra Streisand

  Christian, Spiritual, Art

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• Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Years, Ideas

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• Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

  Vanna Bonta

  Life, Fiction, Stories

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, Expression

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• Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

  Julia Alvarez

  School, Character, Issues

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• Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2009). “The Pocket Krishnamurti”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Trying, Reason, Should

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• We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  War, Japan, Feelings

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• We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

  Erica Jong

  Spiritual, Order, Grows

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• Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Insecurity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Fancy, Gains, Reason

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because nothing like this was required before in the human experience. And spiritual partnerships can be created in a biological family, they can be created among friends, they can be created in the workplace, they can be created anywhere that two or more individuals are committed to their own spiritual evolution and are striving to relate to each other as equals.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Two, Growth

  Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.

  Sterling W Sill

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

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• Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We're becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience - the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We're becoming multisensory.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Mind

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• Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

  Leland Ryken

  Mean, Reality, Zest

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.24, Shaw Books

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• The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

  RuPaul

  Spiritual, Color, Dancing

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• I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Thinking, Giving, Shows

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• It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Play, Risk, Safe

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• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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