Your Life Is Your Experience Your Experience Is Your Life

[boagie]

Hi Y'all!

Life you could say is experience, and in this, it is indistinguishable from other living entities accept in the quality of experience, over all or at any given point, that is why there is compassion, we recognize this about life as the self, it is a common experience, and through experience, our name is legion. To aid someone who is contemplating suicide, what could or might you do to aid this individual, the answer is, change the subjects general experience of what is life. No getting around it, emotion is that marrow of the bone, its the real life of the bone and is at its centre. Experience is your life as you feel about it . What do you think?

[Aristoddler]

Life is not experience in my opinion, but what you have learned and used from those experiences.
The experiences are merely the ingredients, and how we use them is the recipe.
The final meal is our life.

[boagie]

Originally Posted by Aristoddler

Life is not experience in my opinion, but what you have learned and used from those experiences.
The experiences are merely the ingredients, and how we use them is the recipe.
The final meal is our life.

Aristoddler,

So, what are you then, devoid of experience? Actually I think you are saying pretty much the same thing as I. You believe life is what you do with experience, indeed, and that depends upon how you feel about that experience. One man's treasure is another man's trash, the interpreters of experiences are largely the emotions, though admittedly conditioned first by the understanding, the emotional aspect does determine the quality of life, it is the marrow of the bone, so to speak. Life is the quality of experience, you are then, that quality. You are living the quality of your biological state.

[Aristoddler]

What I'm saying is that the experiences are just the fuel for the journey.
I've forgotten many experiences I have had, so they are not a factor in who I am...the ones that I remember however, are. Simply because you experience something does not mean that it will have an influence on you in one way or another. You also have to regard that experience as meaningful, or it will just vanish with the rest of the trash.

But yes, we are on the same wavelength.

[boagie]

Originally Posted by Aristoddler

What I'm saying is that the experiences are just the fuel for the journey.
I've forgotten many experiences I have had, so they are not a factor in who I am...the ones that I remember however, are. Simply because you experience something does not mean that it will have an influence on you in one way or another. You also have to regard that experience as meaningful, or it will just vanish with the rest of the trash.
But yes, we are on the same wavelength.

Aristoddler,

Indeed, fuel for the understanding, that is the world at large. It is quite impossiable to know you have forgotten much that you have experienced. Experience itself is the world having an effect upon you, assuring a reaction on one level or another. Even to give a negative evaluation, as to the importance of something, is to give that object, conditon or situtation meaning, its a mind boggling experience- reaction situtation. You are a good deal more complex then you appear to believe you are.

[Vasska]

Of all the things we have seen, of all the things we have done, of all the things that have happened we only have left our memories. That's all.

My life is an experience (making the memories), my experience is my life (recalling the memories).

It's all I can say.

[boagie]

Originally Posted by Vasska

Of all the things we have seen, of all the things we have done, of all the things that have happened we only have left our memories. That's all.
My life is an experience (making the memories), my experience is my life (recalling the memories). It's all I can say.

Vasska,

Well, you can consider your life a singularity-- A, experience, even though is is not closed, and new experiences flood in all the while. True, the secret to a wonderful old age is to make a multitude of pleasant memories, however, life as it is, we do not entirely get to chose what we remember. I disgree that all we have is our memories, in the sense that you mean it, your experiences have shaped your psychology and your body, your very impression of the world, and, its is against these variables that your new experiences are conditioned. Context defines you might say, by past, present and the very next moment.

[Vasska]

Originally Posted by boagie

Vasska,

Well, you can consider your life a singularity-- A, experience, even though is is not closed, and new experiences flood in all the while. True, the secret to a wonderful old age is to make a multitude of pleasant memories, however, life as it is, we do not entirely get to chose what we remember. I disgree that all we have is our memories, in the sense that you mean it, your experiences have shaped your psychology and your body, your very impression of the world, and, its is against these variables that your new experiences are conditioned. Context defines you might say, by past, present and the very next moment.

If you put it this way it goes like this:

We experience something and get shaped by this. Making our life an experience and our experience our life.

Of the moment - seized by our ideas of it all - only memories remain, the actions and consequences always stay with us.

[boagie]

Originally Posted by Vasska

If you put it this way it goes like this:

We experience something and get shaped by this. Making our life an experience and our experience our life.

Of the moment - seized by our ideas of it all - only memories remain, the actions and consequences always stay with us.

Vasska,

Your first statement, fits the topic title perfectly. How do you mean the actions and consequences always stay with us-----------are they not memories? Anyway, I believe our thinking on this is pretty close. The over all quality of the experience of living, is the life, if the experience is wretched, the life is wretched. Sometimes it is a matter of an oppressive context, sometimes an organic problem, or just to dammed complex to ever know the answer.


"Making our life an experience and our experience our life." quote

Your Life Is Your Experience Your Experience Is Your Life: title of thread. Yes indeed we are on the same wavelength.



To Jung, Feeling and Thinking are rational functions. He was explicit that feeling did not mean emotion; it referred to a value judgment that something was agreeable or disagreeable. The rational functions work to create order for us.

[raven]

could that marrow not be termed the the soul and the bone the physical?
life is being its up you how you choose to be experience is a brutal teacher but boy do you learn
much peace