Quotes About Peak Experiences

#1. Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

John Tillotson

#2. In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#3. A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Austin O'Malley

#4. What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Abraham Maslow

#5. As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'

Pema Chodron

#6. What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

Arjuna Ardagh

#7. Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

Chetan Bhagat

#8. I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Kathryn Bigelow

#9. I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

David Pearce

#10. Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences ... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

Bob Beamon

#13. We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Harriet Lerner

#14. During a peak experience," Maslow explained, "the individual experiences an expansion of self, a sense of unity, and meaningfulness in life. The experience lingers in one's consciousness and gives a sense of purpose, integration, self-determination and empathy.

Steven Kotler

#15. Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

Abraham Maslow

#16. Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#17. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things -

Dan Simmons

#18. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

Abraham Maslow

#19. Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it is how the prosaic present may hide the exciting past.

Whipplesnaith