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• Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Believe, Yoga

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• I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

  Patti Smith

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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• The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Prayer, Simple, Voice

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

  Deepak Chopra

  Technology, Phones, Fax Machines

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

  Mary Garden

  Spiritual, Children, Views

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• Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

  George Leonard

  Powerful, Real, Ideas

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• There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Jobs, War

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• The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.

  William Moseley

  People, Would Be, Cost

  "William Moseley Talks THE ROYALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2015.

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• To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Spiritual, Mean, Reality

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• We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

  Richard Flanagan

  World, Dramatic, Materials

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more strength to whatever has to do with the real world and whatever has to do with some transcendence of the material world.

  Olivier Assayas

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

  David Brooks

  Pride, Doe, World

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Space, Lightning

  "Not My Job: Deepak Chopra Plays "Yes, We Cannes". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 1, 2013.

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• Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

  Deepak Chopra

  World, Failing, Immortality

  "Not My Job: Deepak Chopra Plays 'Yes, We Cannes'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 1, 2013.

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• I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Lucky

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Mean, World

  "Tom Ford Unzipped: Interview Transcript". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.

  Deepak Chopra

  Independent, Opposites, Forever

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• As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Kindness, Heart

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.41, Harmony

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• Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Jewels, World

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• The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychology, World, Facts

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Curves, Axes, Two

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

  Nancy Pearcey

  Trying, Stories, World

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.105, David C Cook

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• I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

  Bernard Beckett

  World, Belief, Ability

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