Words&Dirt

“Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.  Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter.  There is energy and there is matter.  That is all life is.  We may think thought is not matter but it is.  Thought is matter as an ideology.”

––Freedom from the Known, by Jiddu Krishnamurti, pg. 101-2

“Alice silently reminisced as they walked.  The professors she’d loved and feared and made a fool of herself in front of, the boys she’d loved and feared and made an even bigger fool of herself in front of, the punchy all-nighters before exams, the classes, the parties, the friendships, meeting John––her memories of that time in her life were vivid, perfectly intact, and easily accessed.  They were almost a little cocky the way they came to her, so full and ready, like they had no knowledge of the war going on just a few centimeters to their left.”

––Still Alice, by Lisa Genova, pg. 153