A complete experience leaves no trace. You can't take anything with you from a complete experience.

When someone says their experiences had made them who they are, they are saying that they have not lived fully.

A fully realized experience is complete and whole in the moment it occurs. Nothing is carried on. You can't take anything with you from it.

A past experience cannot determine my presence, unless I don't fully live in the now. Then I'm not fully alive. Then I didn't fully live back then either.

All that can be taken away from an experience is what was not experienced. An experience that was fully experienced is completely over, because it happened completely in the moment when it happened, and thus was complete the moment it happened.

In this way it is eternal, timeless. Whole.

When you live fully, nothing sticks. Then the experience is complete in itself, fully present in its entire presence, and you take nothing with you.

You don't learn from experience. Many people have experiences and learn nothing from them. If learning were a necessary consequence of experience, then the corresponding learning would necessarily follow from every experience. That is not the case. Learning does not come from experience.

You don't learn from experience, you learn from the clarity that is present in the experience. If you allow the clarity to be present, then you learn from it. From clarity, not from experience.

Experience is neutral and mute. Clarity speaks and lives.

Take up residence there, in the liveliness of clarity.

Live in clarity, and not in experience. Experience you hold on to is old, dead. Only experience that is fully experienced and completely let go is living experience, and only in its time.

Live in Presence.

Live free of experience. Live wholly. Let the experiences be experiences completely.

Let them appear completely out of nothing, bloom in all their splendor, and disappear into nothingness.

Experiences come and go. You are.