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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.