No Matter Quotes

Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.

No matter what role I play, I have a certain image to maintain. I believe I'm a role model and I take my parts accordingly.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.

No matter which way you turn ... there's nothing but illuison.

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

When time stops, matter stops.

When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.

The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ... .

You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.

The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.

All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.

Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.