"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
"What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash."
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Source: Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue
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