First Hand Experience Quotes

• There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.

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  Andrew Weil

  Healing   Breathing   Keys  

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• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

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  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy   Passion   School  

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

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  Edgar Mitchell

  Military   Real   Government  

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• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

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  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother   Philosophy   Mean  

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• If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom   Hands   Would Be  

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• More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

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  Nitin Sawhney

  Country   Phones   Hands  

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

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  Edgar Mitchell

  Team   Hands   Knowing  

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Love   Dream   Business  

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• Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

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  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual   Teacher   Buddhism  

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• I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

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  Kevin Benderman

  Art   War   Hero  

  Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”

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• The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

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  Evelyn Underhill

  Hands   Looks   Firsts  

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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