Non-Material Quotes

There's more to life than physical and material.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

The greatest things in life are not things.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

The best things in life aren't things.

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.

The physical was never the best part of the body.

The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.

Everything in life cannot be bought.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.