Quotes About Matter

Ullmann had once written that the secret of every work of art was the annihilation of matter through form.

He made that exact point to Kennedy, but she remained obstinate on the matter. She wouldn't go into

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.

Down there among the roots where the flowers decayed, gusts of dead smells were wafted; drops formed on the bloated sides of swollen things. The skin of rotten fruit broke, and matter oozed too thick to run.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.

The OT deity was the "demiurge" (d?miourgos, "worker" or "craftsman"), whose act of creating the world of sense and matter was intended simply to provide himself with a sphere in which he could rule and a domain

We who are living look in the direction of death and imagine it to be a state of bodilessness, in which we are pure spirit. Yet, the dead stare back and image life to be a state of enslavement in matter.

What is a word? It is a sound vibration! And what is the intelligence behind this vibration that "thinks" the Word? The answer is MIND (or what some call consciousness, intention or god). In short, there is a mind behind matter. Our holy and sacred minds are part of the Divine Consciousness.

Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.

The basic tenet of Tantrism is that matter, and therefore the body, is also a manifestation of S'akti power, that is, the power emanating from the feminine aspect of Divine Reality.

Spirit continuously manifests matter, and matter continuously manifests spirit.

From out of the spirit worlds matter is continuously being spewed forth. This mystery is like a great ejaculation; the divine convulses in a state of ecstasy and produces matter...and then matter answers as humankind has sex and in the moment of sexual orgasm calls out to God.

The supposed Spirit-Matter duality is based on a misunderstanding of the perception of the Essence. The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.

They order, said I, this matter better in France.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. Whatever is created by the spirit is more alive than matter.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this particular time I do not recall the particulars of that particular matter.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.

All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion served, would quote; No matter whether right or wrong; They might be either said or sung.

Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio , as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.