"Religion is a defense against a religious experience."

-- Carl Jung

"It's the experience of God that matters, not just the belief in God."

-- Marianne Williamson

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world the way they have been told to."

-- Alan Keightley

"There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience."

-- Archibald Macleish

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it-- even if I have said it -- unless it agrees with your own reason and your own commonsense."

-- Gautama Buddha

"You will experience whatever you think after the words 'I am...'"

-- Chalanda Sai Ma

"Absolutes should be experienced not discussed."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Never try to have the same experience twice."

-- Sri Aurobindo

"One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing."

-- Arnold Bax

"A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself."

-- Henri Du Bois

"Experience is not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you."

-- Aldous Huxley