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“The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.”
― St. Francis of Assisi

“Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.”
― Pope Benedict XVI

“A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith.”
― Nicholas Stacey

“Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo").”
― Bret Harte

“I do not in general have the impression that sexual abstinence helps produce energetic, independent men of action or original thinkers, bold liberators and reformers. Far more often it produces well-behaved weaklings who later merge into the great mass of those who habitually, if reluctantly, follow the lead given by strong individuals.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“But the mass itself had been so boring that even her fantasies of rescuing Jesus and giving him a tender, thorough sponge bath couldn't keep her awake.”
― Emma T枚rzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man believed that one was placed beyond the touch of time, and therefore aging, while attending Mass. What, I wondered, would he have made of those hours we left up in the sky? I would not change my watch until I gave the matter more thought.”
― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“The Lorentz transformations, with their absolute condition c (the speed of light, with light being massless, maximally length-contracted and time-dilated) show that the 鈥減hysical鈥� universe of matter, space and time actually exists within an Absolute Singularity of light.”
― Dr. Thomas Stark, Ontological Mathematics Versus Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

“Climate change will result in mass migrations of humans out of areas that can no longer sustain life and into naturally abundant areas.”
― Steven Magee

“Mail boxes were a mass casualty event in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Fitness is not just about weight or mass but strength, endurance, and flexibility.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Bells and incense!鈥� scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring into church?”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“At the point of 鈥渁bsolute speed,鈥� the mass, energy, or anything we consider material disappears. Absolute speed is 鈥渟peedless.鈥� Absolute speed is always at the same point, which is the pointless point: speed without the speed, the point without the point鈥攂eginning, at the same time as the end. Absolute speed is motionless. Without motion or speed, there is no mass. Without motion, the mass disappears. Without motion, all laws of physics stop functioning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Time is not possible without space. Everything beyond the 鈥減hysical鈥� world is either endless or eternal. Absolute void is endless and, therefore, nonexistent. Absolute void is space without space. In absolute space, every point is the same point. Absolute space is pointless and spaceless. A pointless point is out of space or place.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There is no actual death in the Universe, only a transition from one state to another. The fact that matter, for the most part, does not have an awareness of itself does not change this fact. Matter itself, in all its forms, is alive everywhere. This life is possible only through something which channels it and feeds it. That something is the Absolute Mind or what, often misused and misinterpreted, the word God means in a deeper and broader sense.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The Creator, the Primordial Being (Universal Mind), is the Ultimate Primary Quality of Reality. Creation (energy, matter) is the secondary quality of reality. The effects of the secondary qualities on the mind are tertiary qualities on my scale of qualities. In Lock鈥檚 classification, our secondary quality would be primary, and our tertiary quality would be secondary. This distinction is essential for understanding the nature of reality.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There is no energy or matter as a physical force of nature per se. We experience the 鈥渆mbodiment鈥� (our Reality) of the Universal Form as a result of the conditioning of the Creation (particular beings) to perceive it as matter and energy based on the Ultimate Program of the Universal Mind via the tertiary quality of reality. Being conditioned to perceive something as matter or energy, as hot or cold, as blue or red, we will perceive it as such based on our conditioning, not necessarily based on the true nature of energy and matter. Reality, energy, and matter, as such, do not exist. Reality exists as presented to our senses. What we experience is not the result of reality but our conditioning to perceive reality as such. How we see and perceive reality comes from the third quality of reality, without which everything would collapse. The whole of Reality is the Web of information. Thanks to the tertiary quality of reality, we are partially able not only to enjoy this marvelous Web of information and beauty but also to decipher it.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Energy is the world-born phenomenon, the world that puts itself in motion and flies into space by receiving space into itself. From this point of view or the point of view of the Theory of Relativity, matter is indeed condensed energy. But, from the Absolute, or the Theory of the Absolute, both energy and matter are the dissolved forms of the primordial world of the Absolute. Therefore, energy is the 鈥渄issolved鈥� Absolute, and matter is the formation of 鈥渆nergy鈥� into objects of the multitude of the Absolute, which transforms from oneness and singularity into plurality (although oneness is never lost).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We can almost be sure of two poles of the Absolute鈥擝eing and Nonbeing. Being, as I understand it, can be equated with the Universal Mind (Ultimate Mind) or God, provided we use the term God following this philosophy and not following its general use (as in religions), where this term serves the ideas, desires, and dogmas of the people who claimed to speak a word of God (and not to fit reality).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We can be sure that the fifth element (idea) was immaterial for Plato and Aristotle, who used the term aether. The fifth element (Latin: quinta esentia) differs from the other four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air). When we look at aether, from the perspective of our philosophy, as the main principle before the formation of the world, as a potential (in posse), during its actualization (in esse), and as the underlying Being or reality of all the existence, then this term can be equated with God or, conditionally, with the Universal Mind. A posse ad esse is the transformation from the potential of the Universal Mind to its actualization as the Universe.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial 鈥渟ubstance.鈥� This clarification is important to understand how an immaterial entity can transform into something we experience as material. Whatever we perceive and experience through our senses is based on conventions from secondary qualities of the world (as described by Locke, Berkeley, David Hume, and others). Perhaps our most admirable ability is primarily based on an 鈥渋llusion.鈥� Without this illusion, the world would not only be a sad place but a place without purpose. The whole truth and the beauty of the world lie hidden in this illusion. Our Reality is an illusion, and we shall reinvestigate the word illusion. Without illusion, there is no reality. If illusion is the source of our reality, we shall redefine illusion.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“This illusion is reality, and we shall acknowledge it as such. The interdependence of secondary and primary qualities, the dependence of our senses on the world, and the formation of our impressions are all realities. But, if reality is not reality, as we see it or understand it, this does not mean it is not a reality. Without these 鈥渋llusions,鈥� there would be no meaningful reality. Reality as it is, in its ultimate and absolute state, without transformations, is equal to nothing.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“The underlying truth of all existence and all secondary qualities of matter is the ever-present Universal Mind, Universal Primary Quality, which feeds all existence and creates and recreates matter itself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We can accept energy transformation into mass and that they are the same. But matter, or this kind of energy, could have never come into Being just of itself and could not have created itself, as it is, from nothing. As we described, matter (energy, mass) is impossible without the primary quality. Not only would it not be possible, but it would also be dead without direction, purpose, and meaning. Although, according to Einstein, matter is a condensed energy, energy is still massless. Without kinetic energy, everything would not only come to a stop but disappear. Through motion, the Universal Source secures all the laws of physics, including gravitation and the universal cosmic order. In a way, energy is an unidentifiable 鈥渇orce,鈥� the Bridge between the universal Source and matter.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture:

鈥淭here is a fact, or if you wish, a law, governing all natural phenomena that are known to date. There is no known exception to this law 鈥� it is exact so far as we know. The law is called the conservation of energy. It states that there is a certain quantity, which we call energy that does not change in manifold changes which nature undergoes. That is a most abstract idea, because it is a mathematical principle; it says that there is a numerical quantity which does not change when something happens. It is not a description of a mechanism, or anything concrete; it is just a strange fact that we can calculate some number and when we finish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again, it is the same.鈥�

All significant philosophers and scientists throughout history were in their own right, right if we consider the context, time, and place, the point from which they observed the world by the means available to them. If we understand this context, we know how much harder it was for them to decipher the world previously unknown, except as an experience without fundamental and deeper understanding. In this sense, all these philosophers and scientists were, in a way, 鈥渞ight,鈥� even when they were 鈥渘ot鈥� right. Correctness or wrongness of their ideas and opinions shall be measured more by how they helped our understanding and ideas developed directly from their thoughts. Even if they were in some way wrong, great ideas helped our ideas develop and allowed the formation and formulations of great ideas that will follow. Quality and potential of insights and ideas are more important than strict correctness without any potential.

Progress in human history would not be possible without following the traces of long-bygone giants (as Newton understood them). We can hardly produce any new important question that ancient Greek philosophers did not pose. The whole idea of Western philosophy, as it is, would not be possible without the ancient Greeks. This statement holds even when we talk about the modern era鈥檚 greatest philosophers, starting with Descartes and culminating in the works of the great German philosophers Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, the Dutch Spinoza, and others. Almost all central questions or problems treated by these philosophers were already postulated, discussed, or touched, directly or indirectly, by the great ancient philosophers who paved the way for the others.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE