#matter

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable. ↗

— Edgar D. Mitchell

#consciousness #eternity #life #matter #mind

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. ↗

— Haim Shapira

#things-that-matter #wisdom #life

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#faith #going #hope #right-now #things

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#belly #citizens #ears #fellow #fellow citizens

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win. ↗

— Pau Gasol

#gets #just #matter #takes #who

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#want #faith

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#chiefly #falling #forgetting #how #love

He was between Edoran and the Falcon now, and Arisa pushed past the prince to stand with him. Weasel on the right and Arisa on the left. The image of the cards Arisa has laid out floated through his mind: the fool, with the storm protecting him and the hanged man guiding him true. No matter how powerful the sword and shield were supposed to be, Weasel and Arisa mattered more..."I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasel is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron. ↗

— Hilari Bell

#matters #shield #sword #friendship

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#look #matters #see #you

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything