Quotes About Matter

The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself.

Many people disbelieve in angels because they disbelieve in spirit. They believe only matter exists.

The soul is the form of the body and the body is the matter of the soul, somewhat as the meaning of a book is its form or soul and the words are its matter or body.

then lung-gom may be simplistically regarded as a manifestation of mind over matter, of matter returning to energy

There is more empty space in the book you're holding, than book. The electrons in the atoms of the book are moving so fast, they give the illusion of solid ink on solid paper. It's not. It's just an illusion. If all the electrons would stop moving for even an instant, the book would not just crumble into dust, it would disappear. Poof

David W. Orr writes, in The Nature of Design, "We are losing the capacity to say what we really mean and ultimately to think about what we mean. We are losing the capacity for articulate intelligence about the things that matter most.

strictly speaking, the ability to travel through time . . . for instance, she can't go into the future. In a certain sense, she can't go into the past either; what she does, as near as I can comprehend it, is start a counter-process that uncovers the prior stages inherent in configurations of matter. But

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves—the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed.

What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is. Spirit is what matter does.

consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades the entire universe, and which makes itself apparent most fully – we believe – in human beings.

Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.

If there are other rules, I have forgotten them, and if I've forgotten them it is because they don't matter.

I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter.

al final llegó a concebir la extraordinaria idea de que la conciencia es una propiedad totalmente normal de la materia, como la masa o la carga ambárica; hay un campo de conciencia que impregna el universo entero y que, según creemos, se presenta en su forma más plena en los seres humanos.

William,' she said, 'I wish you'd tell me what the matter is—' 'It's a bit complicated,' he said, 'but she won't be any trouble, honestly.' That wasn't what she meant, and both of them knew it; but somehow Will was in charge of this business, whatever it was.

Every atom of me, and every atom of you.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay. Not on the walls. I'm not talking about the walls. I'm talking about what happens when they stay with us. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

neuronal field," as he called it, created within the brain, which in turn interacts with what he called the "pre-space structure"—a field that all space, time, matter, energy, biological life and consciousness emanates from—i.e., the Source Field.

Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.