Famous Quotes

"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."

Stanislav Grof on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Stanislav Grof

• "Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."

• "An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."

• "A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."

• "There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment."

• "Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."