#peri

Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO. ↗

— Joey Lawsin

#experience

If you want to be all like smart and adult about this shit then do the right thing. But if you want to do something fun and take a chance, then screw what anyone else thinks. Rock and roll, man! ↗

— Karina Halle

#experience

The relation to the other is not epistemological, but ethical, and the whole attempt to accomodate or account for the other within the confines of my experience already constitutes a breach of this fundamental ethical relation. The other is precisely that which cannot be the object of my experience in the sense of being completely manifest within it, and so cannot be construed as a phenomenon at all. ↗

— David R. Cerbone

#ethics #phenomenology #the-other #experience

The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that character of being common, yet individual, that belongs to aesthetic experiences. Some are sensitive to the sight, and the rest are not; to some of them it seems to convey something -- to others it is just a thing, a toadstool or what you will. ↗

— Susanne K. Langer

#experience

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#experience

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#oligarchy #tyranny #experience

I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it. ↗

— Judith Hanson Lasater

#faith #experience

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#failure #learning #mistakes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. Not to acquire a taste for the realistic is childish in the bad sense; to have lost the taste for marvels and adventures is no more a matter for congratulation than losing our teeth, our hair, our palate, and finally, our hopes. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

But perhaps a heart takes experience and time to harden. ↗

— Morgan Rhodes

#experience