#peri

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience. ↗

— Walker Percy

#existentialism #experience #genuineness #the-self #experience

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best when it draws from sources in our world. Characters work best when they’re grounded in solid human emotion and experience. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#fiction #magic #writing #experience

every time you run you create the quality of your own experience ↗

— Fred Rohe

#experience

Words are symbols for shared memories. If I use a word, then you should have some experience of what the word stands for. If not, the word means nothing to you. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#shared-experiences #experience

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment. ↗

— Wolf Pascoe

#science #experience

Remember, it is done unto you as you believe. It’s not “I’ll believe it when I see it,” it’s “You’ll see it when you believe it.” You can’t make a demand on life that exceeds your belief about it — because you don’t experience life as it is, you experience life as you are. You literally experience the personification of your own perceptions. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #experience

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. ↗

— Fr James Groenings

#grief #loneliness #experience

Laziness always wins. ↗

— Tibor Fischer

#humour #truth #experience

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#bitterness #theology #experience

Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about the ravages of time, about how it robbed and deprived, Justin always smiled; because for him, time was an accomplice, plugging the gaps and fleshing out morsels of memory so he would have something substantial to hang on to. That way, however little he had seen or felt, he would always feel as if he had more: a life far richer than the truth. ↗

— Tash Aw

#time #experience