Experience Quotes - Page 39

• We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  War, Japan, Feelings

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is impossible to avoid the question for long. And if you are very intelligent, it is always there, persistently there, hammering on your heart for the answer: Give me the answer! - Why?

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Intelligent, Long

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• And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

  Rajneesh

  Men, People, Frustrated

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• What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Wine, Thinking, Rivers

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• The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

  Rajneesh

  Sweet, Reality, Luxury

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• Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Moving, Maturity

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• Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo. He imitates Buddhas. He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Hindu - that doesn't make much difference - but he imitates Buddhas.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Buddhist, Differences

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• When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Fighting, Torn Apart

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• I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!" Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!

  Rajneesh

  Brother, Believe, Home

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• Don't hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love, and joy, you will become able to go beyond.

  Rajneesh

  Passion, Other Worlds, Joy

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• The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

  Rajneesh

  Other Worlds, This World, Awakened

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• I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.

  Rajneesh

  Helping, States, Wherever You Are

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• First become a Zorba, a flower of this earth, and earn the capacity through it to become a Buddha - the flower of the other world. The other world is not away from this world; the other world is not against this world: the other world is hidden in this. This is only a manifestataion of the other, and the other is the unmanifest part of this.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Other Worlds, Earth

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• One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Effort, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.347, Shambhala Publications

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• This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and without goal. And this, as Ramana said, is the final truth.

  Ken Wilber

  Mean, Goal, Finals

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Distance, Love You

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

  David Hume

  Reason, Inference, Conjunctions

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.195, eKitap Projesi

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• Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

  Elizabeth David

  Organization, Long, Kitchen

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• Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Poor, Guides

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• Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

  James Agate

  Long, Theatre, Taught

  James Agate (1947). “My Theatre Talks”

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• A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, Knows

  "Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama’s Moment of Truth" by Rev. Peter Laarman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2008.

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• High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Thinking, Core

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.1964, Random House

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• The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.

  Peter George Peterson

  May, Priceless, Has Beens

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• He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Long, Delight, May

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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