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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

‘Mind and matter,’ said the lady in the wig, ‘glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.’

Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature’s God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.