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“Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.”

Men World Humans Certain Energy Human Beings Creative Share Materials Overcoming Creator Mythology Material World Secretive Creative Energy

Author:John Cowper Powys

“...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.”

Thinking World Long Two Together Spiritual Belief Strong Force Realizing Materials Combination Material World

Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.”

“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.”

“Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.”

Thinking World Real Modern Materials Illusion Beast Modern World Material World Undoing

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.”

People Knows World Persons Christian Lying Values Goal Lord Materials Ultimate Satisfaction Delight Knowing God Ultimate Goal Material World Knowledge Of God

Author:Max Anders

“The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.”

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Author:Nikola Tesla

“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.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”

World Kind Materials Photography Heroic Material World Overstatement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

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Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.”

World Body Law Spirit Order Divine Materials Eternal Real Life Agents Merit Acquire Observing Material World Divine Power Eternal Happiness

Author:Allan Kardec

“Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.”

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Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.”

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Author:Richard Flanagan

“It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.”

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Author:Surya Das

“What does "living your best life" mean to you? Does it mean accumulating wealth and fulfilling all your material wants? Or, does it mean turning away from the material world in order to fully realize the gift of spirit? We often tend to think of these objectives as being mutually exclusive: material fulfillment or spiritual fulfillment, not both together.”

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Author:Rod Stryker

“A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive.”

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