Experience

*EXPERIENCE - also see VICARIOUS, PRESENCE, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTAND, TRUTH, REALIZE, REALITY, MYSTICAL, CONSCIOUSNESS

The illuminated experience balances and completes the experience of the Presence of God as an expansion of consciousness, rather than concentration. It is the discovery of the One ablaze in the Many, not the forsaking of the Many in order to find the One. (p305) (Mysticism)

Who you are, I am. You are defining God. I have sent you - a blessed part of Me - into physical form that I might know Myself experientially as all that I know Myself to be conceptually. Life exists as a tool for God to turn concept into experience. It exists for you to do the same. For you are God, doing this. I choose to re-create Myself anew in every single moment. I choose to experience the grandest version of the greatest vision ever I had about Who I Am. I have created you, so that you might re-create Me. (http://www.beyondtheveil.net/mystic.html)

We already live in this New Jerusalem without noticing it. The Omega Point is distant from us, not in time, but only in experience. By believing we receive motivation for the path that is to lead us to the experience of this [new] reality. (Meaning, p282)

Experience (see BEGINNING) is what you came here for and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others. The "sin" you have committed is that you do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others and when you do encounter the actual experience you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter. You deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think - by your parents, schools, religions, traditions, and scriptures. I desire to know Who I Am and experience Myself, in all My glory; and that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are; and for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, and total fulfillment in each moment of now. (Conversations, p62-3,65)

The mystery of life is to be experienced, not explained. (F. Herbert)

Knowledge is experience. Everything else is just information. (Albert Einstein, Why Nobody Learns Much of Anything at Church, p147)

We are sweetly anesthetized by God's love, so that we don't experience the trauma. (Awakening, p200)

Pantheism is a term that applies only at the level of intellectual understanding of doctrine. On the level of religious experience, pantheism does not fit because it lacks the mystical dimension. To attempt to apply the word pantheism to mystical experience is akin to trying to buy liquid (3-D) by the square meter (2-D). All words are only fingers pointing to the moon. They are the score, but not the music. Take words [in books, scripture, etc] as an attempt to point to the experience of what we Christians call "God." (Contemplation, Preface)

The experience of enlightenment can be likened to a white ray of light, and the human ego to a prism that disperses the white light into the colors of the rainbow. The white ray of light is beyond human articulation, and any attempt to describe it always takes some color from the ego. IMAGES AND CONCEPTS ARE RELATIVE. (Contemplation, p35)

Our experiences, our mistakes and even our failures function like fertilizer. When we do not scrutinize our failures for the lessons they contain, we miss an opportunity. What appears to be useless trash contains potential nutrients for life. To convert our deficiencies into positive value, we need to pile them on a compost heap, not sweep them behind a bush. Like manure, past experiences must be plowed into the ground to enrich the inner soil of the self, making it more receptive to the seed of God's word. If we bring our weakness before the Lord, humbly asking for the help of enabling grace, we can then trust that the Lord will produce an abundant harvest. (By Way of the Heart, Wilkie Au, p201-2)