I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: consumerism materialism obsession
Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: consumerism greed materialism wants needs glutony
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: loss consumerism materialism slavery ownership
Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: consumerism materialism marketing
When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; a Christian or a freethinker, I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure that they had attained a certain 'gnosis'--had more or less successfully solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. And, with Hume and Kant on my side, I could not think myself presumptuous in holding fast by that opinion ...
So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic' of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes.
Tags: truth honesty knowledge belief freethinker materialism definition agnosticism agnostic gnostic
The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
John CalvinTags: passion materialism discipleship
The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new world within his soul. Islam fully agrees with this insight and supplements it by the further insight that the illumination of the new world thus revealed is not something foreign to the world of matter but permeates it through and through.
Thus the affirmation of spirit sought by Christianity would come not by the renunciation of external forces which are already permeated by the illumination of spirit, but by a proper adjustment of man's relation to these forces in view of the light received from the world within.
Tags: christianity spirituality materialism islam
Thoughts don't become things; thoughts ARE things.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: inspirational consciousness truth perception reality buddhism inspiration spiritual mind thought spirituality self-awareness materialism meditation awareness power-of-thoughts awakening conscious-awareness spiritual-growth know-thyself manifestation objective-and-subjective nature-of-things materialism-versus-spiritualism manifesting-dreams
Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I'm unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because I'm locked into a world-view that demands evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments — particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world — and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments.
James RandiTags: science reason atheism naturalism superstition materialism scientific-method paranormal evidence experiment
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
Brian GreeneTags: science choice determinism free-will physics materialism laws-of-physics illusory
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