#ed

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#new-normal #normality #paradigm-shift #paradigms #sacred-economics

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#hospital #medicine #pain #experience

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing. ↗

— Michael Morpurgo

#education #experience #learning #observation #school

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. ↗

— Charles S. Peirce

#learning #pedagogy #experience

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past. ↗

— Toba Beta

#smartness #stupidity #wickedness #experience

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #meditation #mindfulness #experience

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#enhance #hinder #ideas #improve #information

That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine." Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#fate-s-edge #funny #gaston #george #ilona-andrews

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#knowledge #life #poetry #experience

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus. ↗

— W. Scott Lineberry

#loss #search #tragedy #experience