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"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."
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"Life is an experimental field. You can explore by faith."
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"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners."
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"Pathology can indeed evoke experiences of Absolute Godliness, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. They can also occur due to disturbance in the geomagnetic field of our planet, consumption of psychedelics, excruciatingly extreme level of stress during a near- death situation, or ultimately through a natural and healthy procedure of meditation or/and prayer."
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"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
Family
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."
Home
"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
People
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
Religion
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
Family
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Friendship
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