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Quotes About Matter

Mind to matter is not an abstract metaphysical proposition. It is a physical fact, as material as the bodies we live in. Thought by thought, moment by moment, our minds are creating the energy fields in which our cells reproduce. Positive thoughts provide our cells with an energy culture in which they thrive.
~ Dawson Church
Simple, broadly effective, and elegant, working at the level of energy frees us from the tyranny of matter. We address our problems at the level of cause rather than effect.
~ Dawson Church
Burr's huge insight was that fields weren't just produced by living organisms, but that fields created matter, providing lines of force around which matter could arrange itself into atoms, molecules, and cells.
~ Dawson Church
Consciousness and matter interact with the fields around you, and the result is material reality.
~ Dawson Church
All buildings: big or small, beautiful or ugly, are the spiritualisation of matter
~ Dean Cavanagh
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
~ Anonymous
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
~ David Mitchell, number9dream
A living speck-the merest dab of life-capable of pleasure and pain, is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.
~ Jean Fabre
If I can not have the most brilliant destiny, I want the most wretched, not for the purpose of a sterile solitude, but in order to achieve something new with such rare matter.
~ Jean Genet
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Synchronicity has been defined, tongue-in-cheek, as "God acting anonymously," which nonetheless alludes to an awe that can accompany an especially uncanny and significant synchronicity. Maybe we should think of it as "Sophia acting anonymously," when we know through the synchronicity that there is no adequate explanation for how this could happen other than that we are part of an interconnected spiritual universe that has just shown us that we matter.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
He: What's the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Despite everything, he likes being alive. Lydia doesn't know whether that's true for herself. For mothers, the question is immaterial anyway. Her survival is a matter of instinct rather than desire.
~ Jeanine Cummins
I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle.
~ Jeb Dickerson
Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma
~ Jeff Grubb
That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now
~ Elizabeth Berg
Well, Scarborough cares, doesn't he? Maximus doesn't—not really. No doubt he's a bit compelled by the chase, but if he doesn't win"—she shrugged her shoulders—"he'll simply find another suitable heiress. She—Lady Penelope herself—doesn't really matter to him. And if it comes right down to it, wouldn't you chose passion—however old—over dispassion?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Man can work only as nature does, that is by changing the form of matter.
~ Alfred Schmidt
Life, using matter to express itself in bodily shape, first traces a geometrical pattern. From the lowest form in crystals, upwards to more complicated patterns in the higher organisations—there is always first this geometrical pattern as skeleton.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Art is always an exchange, like love, whose giving and taking can be a complex and wounding matter, according to Michelangelo
~ Ali Smith
An idea is a being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of manifestation.
~ Alice A Bailey
Para que o material se torne visível, a energia precisa ser desacelerada, a fim de que as vibrações aumentem e se cristalizem em alguma coisa tangível.
~ Alice O. Howell
Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.
~ Alice Randall
Cartesian dualism gave medicine permission to see and to treat the body as manipulable matter, as res extensa,
~ Allen Verhey