#experiences

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#journeys #trees #experience

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #artists-life #creative #creativity #experiences

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#influence #influences #observations #proverb #proverbial-wisdom

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#experiences #practice #experience

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36) ↗

— Chrystine Oksana

#abuse-of-power #cult #dissociation #fear #healing

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others... ↗

— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#dharma #experiences #help #improvements #maturity

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#being #counting #experiences #human #human mind

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#experiences #thought #wished #experience

When you learn from experience and history, and try to walk down a different road, the present always reminds you that you need to walk down the road that experience and history did. This is why no one learns from experience and history. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#history #experience

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#new-perspectives #personal-growth #experience