Paulo Coelho on experience

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement… Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain1835–1910

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5