Quotes about Experience

And if our naïve self-confidence is a little undermined in the process, is that altogether such a loss? Is there not cause to welcome it as a maturing and character-building experience?

My dear friend, I may be the victim of wrong perceptions, and what I write here may not reflect the truth. However, this is my experience of the situation. This is what I really feel in my heart. If there is anything wrong in what I write, let us sit down and look into it together

There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.

All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.

In the experience [of drinking tea], you are one with the tea, there is no distinction between subject and object, there is no evaluation, there is no discrimination. This pure sensation can be presented as an example of non-discriminative knowledge. It is that which introduces us to the heart of reality.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

In the study of Christian spirituality, real contemplation is actually an experience with a beginning and an end that Christians pass through. Contemplation is not generally considered a life-state that one exists in, so I'm adapting the word somewhat when I use it as a label for a spiritual temperament.

It's far better to move somewhere on a trial basis as a single person to try out the option than to get married first and then see if you like it.