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Everything you know gained from experience ↗


— Jostein Gaarder


#experience

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse. ↗


— Aldous Huxley


#present-moment #time #change

While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening happens. Our shoulders may become permanently knotted and raised, our head thrust forward, our back hunched, our chest sunken. Rather than a temporary reaction to danger, we develop a permanent suit of armor. We become, as Chogyam Trungpa puts it, “a bundle of tense muscles defending our existence.” We often don’t even recognize this armor because it feels like such a familiar part of who we are. But we can see it in others. And when we are meditating, we can feel it in ourselves—the tightness, the areas where we feel nothing. ↗


— Tara Brach


#meditation #radical-acceptance #experience

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. ↗


— Lauren Willig


#humor #mystery #romance-novels #dating

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda. ↗


— Silvan Shalom


#call #ease #i #life #like

Revenge is the sweetest of all human experiences, its sweetness stays forver. Page 41. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH (www.hsrissam.com ↗


— H.S. Rissam


#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, "Where is the calculus in this experience? ↗


— Jennifer Ouellette


#life-lessons #mathematics #experience

An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled. ↗


— Jonathan Safran Foer


#philosophical-reflection #experience

Experience is the treasure of any persona. ↗


— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram


#philosophy-of-life #experience

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. ↗


— Moshe Sharett


#cannot #deceit #facts #generation #historical






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