#ex

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spirituality #experience

Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#experience

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#memoir #travel #writing #experience

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#specimen-collection #experience

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#learning #mistakes #experience

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding. ↗

— Yovanny Alfonso

#human-growth #inspirational-quotes #living-life #experience

I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#kindness #monsters #traumatic-experiences #experience

Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may have many visions, but we will surely end where we started. If we opt for growth, we may have our moments of transcendence, but they will be peak experiences along the steady road to a richer and more secure self. (32-33) ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#new-experience #transcendance #experience