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“Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.”

Facts Values Simple Direct Experience Everyday Concrete Personal Experiences

Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.”

States Consciousness Our Lives Direct Experience Fulfilling Harmonious Habitual Correlation States Of Consciousness

Author:Roy Davis

“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”

World Feels Should Taken Mystery Comfortable Clothes Ordinary Direct Experience Regions Closets Surroundings Refrigerators Invigorating Daily Routines

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

Real Technology Learning Teacher Teaching Example Limits Direct Experience Instruction Blink Self Education Good Teacher Teaching And Learning Good Teaching Self Taught Adequacy Experience And Learning

Book:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.”

War Science Courses Consequence Direct Experience Winter Nuclear Physics Experiments Investigation Predictions Governing Nuclear War Nuclear Winter

Author:Carl Sagan

“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

Opinion Direct Experience

Author:A. R. Ammons

“What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.”

Giving War Fighting Interesting Direct Experience Soil Openness

Author:Robert Dallek

“It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.”

Thinking Littles Reading Understanding Cases Direct Experience Mathematics Deeper Reasoning Mathematician Physicist Deeper Understanding

Book:The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Source: The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

“No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”

“The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.”

Knows Real Today Science Nature Numbers Modern Century Birth Direct Experience Experiments Observation Features Something New Dependence Confrontation Modern Science

Book:The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

Source: The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

“If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.”

Ifs World Body Hands Wish Particular Direct Experience Depth Active Engaged Phenomenon Passive Entity Ongoing Our Words Reciprocity Affirming Sensing

Author:David Abram

“Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.”

Ifs Giving Looks Love Is Rooms Love You Pure Direct Experience Who You Are Greatest Gifts Pure Love

Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.”

Reading Amount Direct Experience Intelligent Deductions

Author:John Fowles