#erie

The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#spiritual #experience

...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning. ↗

— Richard DuFour

#learning #experience

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#experience

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. ↗

— Greg Anderson

#areas #creativity #day #decade #every

It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #journey #judging #life #experience

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#manic-depression #experience

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#control #patriarchy #politics #reproduction #revolution

❝ THE THING WAS, YOU EXPERIENCE LIFE AND YOU’RE FORCED TO DEAL WITH IT. LIKE IT OR NOT, IT HAPPENED AND YOU DEAL WITH IT. THAT’S THE DEAL. ❞ ↗

— Shey Stahl

#shey-stahl #waiting-for-you #experience

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to. ↗

— Tim Tharp

#life-quotes #experience

I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for a threesome, I’m most likely to cut off your dick and feed it to my neighbor’s Chihuahua. ↗

— Taylor V. Donovan

#sdos-the-by-degrees-series #experience