Individual Experience Quotes

“I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“Honoring the unique experience of the individual is important. As we do that, we can start to listen beyond the terms we agreed to agree on, which really were not showing the experience for what it truly is—a unique, unrepeatable, individual experience within the moment.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1