“Human awareness extracts geometry as a perceptual experience. Reality is possibilities for shapes and forms.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Body, mind and world are the objectification of experiences which are themselves modifications of awareness.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Why would you choose to measure your life by endings when all the experience is in the journey?”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“One who writes memoir wishes to step into that light, not to see one's own face—that is not possible—but to feel the length of shadow cast by the night.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“For meaning is not "attached" to the detail by the memoirist; meaning is revealed.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“Seeking the congruence between stored image and hidden emotion—that's the real job of memoir.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“My narrative self (the culprit who invented) wishes to be discovered by my reflective self, the self who wants to understand and make sense of half-remembered moment.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“Memory seeks a permanent home for feeling and image, a habitation where they can live together.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“Intimacy with a piece of writing, as with a person, comes from paying attention to the revelations it is capable of giving, not by imposing my own notions and agenda, no matter how well intentioned they might be.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“The experience was simply there, like a book that has always been on the shelf, whether I ever read it or not, the binding and the title showing as I skim across the contents of my life.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“When someone comes to you with their pain, they are not asking you to decide if their experience is valid.”— Silvy Khoucasian, silvykhoucasian.com
“I worry that 'conflict of interest’ gets overly weaponized in our politics. I think in many cases, when there’s a conflict of interest, it’s an indication that someone understands something way better than if there’s no conflict of interest. If there’s no conflict of interest, it’s often because you…”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”— Jack Kerouac, en.wikiquote.org
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“It's not uncommon for the Old Soul to experience some measure of depression, apathy or existential lethargy when it comes to living everyday life. After all, if physical existence loses its star-spangled gleam, and everyday affairs lose their burning importance, what is the point of living a dull li…”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com