Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”
“Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.”
“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
“To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.”
“Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'”
“In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?”
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
“I had such a desire to live and experience things and make mistakes and grow after 'SOUR' came out, I kind of felt this pressure to be this girl that I thought everyone expected me to be. And I think because of that pressure, maybe I did things that maybe I shouldn't have - dated people that I shouldn't have.”
“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”