Science is about measuring life in all its quantities, large and small. Experience is about life in all its qualities, which cannot be counted.

Experience is how we know anything.

What this comes down to is that the self you identify with is simply the self you are aware of.

Chasing worldly desires is what life is all about to the vast majority of people. Being still and quiet, by the same token, feels very uncomfortable for many.

In the human mind, reality is constructed so that The available information isn’t overwhelming and chaotic. We feel free to accept or reject any aspect of reality we choose. We seek to repeat the most familiar, safe, and agreeable experiences. We avoid the most threatening, strange, and disagreeable experiences. The ultimate judge of what’s real is

First, creativity is essential for solving complex problems—the kinds we often face in a fast-paced world. Second, we have very little success in training people to be more creative. And there’s a pretty simple explanation for this failure: we’re trying to train a skill, but what we should be training is a state of mind.

The culprit isn’t experience, because experience can still be joyful and authentic at any time of life. The culprit is hidden in the texture of our lives—it is time. I said above that becoming embedded in the interpreted world (i.e., the spell/dream/illusion) only needed time, nothing else. By the same token, escaping the grip of time is the only w

You weren’t shaped by what happened to you since birth. You were shaped by what you thought about those happenings.

Being human can only be defined as limitless.