There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home

No one can explain this to another just with words. One knows it by experiencing it.

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

Some things in life you must experience to know what they’re like in reality.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.