"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." ― Khalil Gibran Topic(s): Experience Tags: death More From Khalil Gibran "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." "The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold." More In Experience "The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it’s true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."― Peter Hammill "You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way."― Fiona Apple "Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."― John Polkinghorne