#matter

Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming. ↗

— Tom Bissell

#tom-bissell #video-games #why-video-games-matter #design

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#look #matters #see #you

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#land #life #matter #silence #life

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. ↗

— Erwin Schrödinger

#matter #physics #science #science

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#accord #celibacy #compulsion #does #his

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. ↗

— Jim Dine

#emotion #faith #figure #how #i