To know the meaning you had to go through the experience and even then the meaning changed before your eyes.   Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

[A]s we come more into touch with our own ancient . . . consciousness of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings, and to respect those hidden sources of our power from where true knowledge and, therefore, lasting action comes.   Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

It is not the anger . . . that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment.   Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

One can never simply receive a bit of information nakedly.  The process of perception is vitally bound up with the process of inner re-creation, in which one utilizes whatever forms are available in individual psychic existence.  Robert Jay Lifton

The probe agony lifted Teg to a new level of ability.  Crisis had tipped him over into another dimension of human possibilities.   Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

It is a man’s reaction to things that determines their ability to exercise power over him.   Howard Thurman