#peri

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#gardens #geraniums #experience

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#experiences #thought #wished #experience

The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow") ↗

— A.M. Burrage

#strange #experience

The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and happiness, brought about by purely mental means, which thereby automatically eclipses any pleasure arising in dependence on material objects. Thus absorption functions as a powerful antidote to sensual desires by divesting them of their former attraction. ↗

— Anālayo

#meditation #samadhi #vipassana #experience

The statement that the I Ching makes about itself, therefore, is that through the sixty four delineations, which are representative of all possible human events, it reveals the workings of the objective psyche as a formulating principle in the world in its capacity as the common ground of experience. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#experience

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #experience

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#superstition #traditions-history #experience

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#experience

Having already equated the objective psyche or field of immediate experience with the Tao of the I Ching, we might extrapolate further that the structural forms or archetypes are represented by the hexagrams. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#experience

A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear. ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #experience