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The primal substance of our thoughts is an extremely rich gathering of information that's accumulated, exchanged, and continually elaborated. Even
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
Money. The trickiest substance in life
as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies. Money: the essential lie.
Reality is a powerful solvent.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
The main substance of our universe is LOVE
Everything else comes right behind it!
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid
less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.
this religion's substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.
Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
The forms change, but the substance remains.
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
Matter is meaning, in whatever form it takes.
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.
Matter. noun: what we're made of; the very stuff of the universe. verb: to command your contribution to the substance composing everything; to be.
The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
Blood and bodies and death and power.
This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?
The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.
Herbs, vials, and crap," I grumble. "Where are the massive weapons and spirit fighting spears?"
"So impatient," Cooper says, mocking, and goes to pick up a tube filled with powder. "You know, these herbs and vials and crap are important."
"Yes, because crap always sounds necessary.
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
Purpose is stronger than object.
It's all just chemicals.
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
If a cube of sugar is placed in a small volume of water, its real value and essence is felt and appreciated. If it is however placed in a large volume of water, its real taste and essence is merely appreciated
What part of ourselves needs to evaporate in order to concentrate our essence? What do we have to let go?
Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.
There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2
Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel
In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.
Too much of whatever is dangerous.
In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.
Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
Strong determination makes the distination shine.
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
...grief.
If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough.
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
Things' essences all there endure.
It's something useless, sudden, violent; something that costs a life; red, blue, purple; a spirit; a splash ... free from taint, dependence, soilure of humanity or care for one's kind; something rash, ridiculous ... ecstasy - it's ecstasy that matters.
Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.
Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.
Ecstasy ... When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.
Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive,
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
powdered horn is snorted like cocaine.)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Since the forthcoming write-up of my Ph.D. dissertation was much in my mind, it was the work of a moment to begin a solemn dissertation containing all the stigmata of academic turgidity about a substance which dissolved in water 1.12 seconds before you added the water.
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
I am a creature of chemicals.
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Between the subject and the object lies the value.
Cocaine, yeahhhhhhh!!!!!
Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.
Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
The materials shape your idea.
Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
a deep smothering emptiness
Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration
A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.
That is not a drug. It's a leaf.
The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine.