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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. -- Stanislav Grof
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. -- Joan Didion
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. -- Ben Affleck
I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week. -- Sanaa Lathan
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? -- Debra Winger
When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does the body deal with toxins, and evidence looking at the actual experience in populations. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more. -- Barbara Hershey
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. -- Tom Stoppard
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience. -- Simon Le Bon
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive. -- Bobby Riggs
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. -- Thomas Carlyle
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story. -- Cy Twombly
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience. -- Tony Hsieh
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience. -- Saint Basil
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. -- Francis Bacon
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. -- Edward Abbey
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature -- Chrysippus
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. -- F. R. Leavis
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. -- Thomas Hardy
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. -- Sharon Salzberg
...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses -- Gerald M. Loeb
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. -- Huston Smith
Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. -- Watchman Nee
Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek. -- Diane Dreher
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... -- Erwin Schrodinger
The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears. -- Reid Hoffman
When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue. -- Noel Fisher
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music. -- Win Butler
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. -- Warren Spector
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. -- Samuel Smiles
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. -- Mervyn Peake
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere. -- Sheena Iyengar
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience. -- Mike Mason
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. -- Samuel R. Delany
Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth. -- Shirley Manson
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. -- Joan Didion
One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be. -- Matt Nix
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous. -- Lewis Mumford
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination. -- William Howard Taft

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