Experience is, for me, the highest
authority. The touchstone of validity is
my own experience. No other person’s
ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as
authoritative as my experience. It is to
experience that I must return again and
again, to discover a closer
approximation to truth as it is in the
process of becoming in me. Neither the
Bible nor the prophets — neither Freud
nor research —neither the revelations of
God nor man — can take precedence
over my own direct experience.
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