The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?