Quotes about Experience

SQUID technologies

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OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

Getting outside is highly overrated.

Apart from the before, the now has little meaning. The now is only a thin slice of who I am; isolated from the rich deposits of before, it cannot be understood.

Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

We fill our minds with the stories of God's acts. Joy has a history. Joy is the verified, repeated experience of those involved in what God is doing. It is as real as a date in history, as solid as a stratum of rock in Palestine. Joy is nurtured by living in such a history, building on such a foundation.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, one of our great modern Isaian prophets who had extensive experience with violence in two world wars, wrote, "The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer. We seem unwilling to pay the price of living with our fellows in creative and profound relationships."

To be human is to be in trouble.