Joy rather than happiness is the goal of life for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

If your faith is opposed to experience to human learning and investigation it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

You know it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope someday we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

But if somebody dies if something happens to you there is a normal process of depression it is part of being human and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience heightened creativity or exceptional performance by athletes and artists we harbor a greater life than we know.

But human experience is usually paradoxical that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity wonder spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

I made decisions that I regret and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human not perfect like anybody else.

Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.