#sk

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#risk #travel #change

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#family #love #moms #risk #unconditional-love

However, I can’t be happy. I feel I can’t have that experience, I can’t assume I will have that experience. I’m free but feeling lonely and disheartened. I hope there’s happiness out there; besides the future is approaching and waiting for me. In the future, I will be a part of the world. I will finally live my life. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#momiji-sohma #natsuki-takaya #experience

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable? ↗

— Francis Chan

#comforter #holy-spirit #live-dangerously #risk #safety

No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become — there is always something new to learn. Don’t rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you won’t stay where you are. ↗

— Laura Spencer

#skill #experience

When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#home

I winced. I just said "creamed." I felt so deprived and miserably virginal. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#masks #virginal #funny

We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor. ↗

— David Watson

#magical-thinking #religion #science #skepticism #experience

Believers in psychic phenomena... appear to have won a decisive victory and virtually silenced opposition.... This victory is the result of careful experimentation and intelligent argumentation. Dozens of experimenters have obtained positive results in ESP experiments, and the mathematical procedures have been approved by leading statisticians.... Against all this evidence, almost the only defense remaining to the skeptical scientist is ignorance. ↗

— George R. Price

#psi #skepticism #experience

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. ↗

— Sam Harris

#skepticism #faith