The Relationship Between Action and Experience

The cause that a being undergoes an experience is that it contains the kind of movement called alteration whichever way it modify him. Action means to have in oneself a definite movement derived from oneself or a movement which has its goal in some other being and its origin in self. In both cases there is movement but with this distinction that action so far as it is action is impassable. An experience consists in the experiencer's reception of a disposition new to him without the reception of anything that contributes towards his being. The same thing will in one state be an action and in other an experience.