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You are always experiencing yourself.

We do not believe we have a self, the mind automatically creates it, imagines it, separates it from the rest, and establishes an ideal of what it should possess and experience in regards to how it esteems itself.

The ideal self or the will to power/life/pleasure/meaning is the fuel of the real self, what keeps it moving day by day, simply imagination and addiction.

What is experience?

If I am to describe my conscious experience in two words, I’d say: sensations and thoughts. Now there are inner sensations and outer ones. My emotions express themselves in a physical aspect, of heaviness or lightness. Thoughts depend of what I have been thinking lately, a combination of past with future thoughts all juggling at the same time with thoughts about the present and what I have to do to become.

"People treat you according to what they think you are, to what role you play in society, and they act accordingly to what they think they are, and what they think they are is going to influence how they are going to treat you. I play my role which was given to me by the universe itself, but I do not attatch to it. Just like a game you play, but instead of you choosing a character, the universe or life chooses what you are going to be and what region you are going to be born and other characteristics. Once you are alive in the cosmic game, well you choose and become what you want to be but you are driven by causes, conditions, circumstances already established previously to starting the game (biologically determined). As you pass through life you experience your physical being and its enviroment through your senses and feel the emotions of the man that descended from ape, but initially from senseless simple bacteria."
introskeptic, thoughts on the game of life
"The experience of failure and suffering cause a loss in faith and hope."
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"And I tell you, be faithful with your experience, although experience does not prove anything."
introskeptic
"Trying to stop your mind from thinking is like trying to stop your stomach from digesting. When you don’t want your stomach to digest, you stop eating. It is the same with the mind, when you stop feeding the brain with experience, the mind dosen’t have anything to think about."
introskeptic
"It is incredible how life experiences have changed us through time, and to see how our past actions have molded us up to what we are now."
introskeptic
"Go forward, down a path of wisdom, steadily, with strong confidence, be what you are however you are, be your own source of experiences, get rid of the discontent about your nature, forgive yourself, you have it in your power, mixed with everything you’ve lived, with your fears, false starts, mistakes, delusions, passions, loves, hopes, and there is your goal, without missing anything. I am a wanderer and a mountain climber, said Zarathustra to his heart, what returns, what finally comes, it’s my own being, Oh thy self!"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every conduct that is rewarded is repeated. The first time a specific conduct took place, pleasure was generated from the experience, and the brain integrated the experience into neurons associated with the memory of pleasure, causing you to naturally repeat the action because it provides a certain well-being (remember all human conduct aims toward achieving previous felt happiness and staying in this state). This is why we human beings are very habitual and always seem to repeat the same patterns of behavior over and over. This way humans are able to avoid pain at all costs, enhance their well being, but this makes you closed minded and sometimes blind to new things, new places, new people. It all depends on what the individual wants to experience in his lifetime."
introskeptic, a reflection on human conduct.
"For whatever we see everyday in outer reality is actually nothing more than a projection of our own inner reality."
Lama Yeshe
"As soon as we think we know something, then we become rigid and unresponsive. You know the famous phrase: ‘For the beginner there are many possibilities, but for the expert there are few.’ Maintaining a mind of ‘not knowing’ allows us to respond to situations with openness, freshness, and joy."
Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi, “Give and Take: On Studying Koans”
"Material things and beliefs are tools to gain certain experiences."
introskeptic
"Experience brings thoughts to the mind, and what meditation does is cut the experience derived through the senses in order to suppress the habit of thought. If there is no experience, thoughts will begin to fade with practice, and the result will be a peaceful mind."
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