#peri

...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#p- #experience

The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none of it. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

#experience

It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#story #experience

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#experience

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#foolishness #youth #experience

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#gypsy #human-experience #spirituality #experience

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#funny #gray-hair #humor #peer-pressure #experience

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#space #time #experience

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me. ↗

— Richard Nelson

#mountains #nature #experience