What Matters?

 

What is reality? I think it is the result of the collective imagination of The Observer. I say collective because The Observer projects through a fly’s eyes. Just on this one earth, there are trillions of ways that this day will appear as it develops through the trillions of senses which Matter (A verb).

Let’s talk about matter, but let us reduce it to a summary.

Matter is material or stuff. It is a situation (makes matters worse). It is the reason one might be anxious (what’s the matter). But it becomes a verb when we aren’t careful (it doesn’t matter). “Our CEO came by today, we spent days getting ready because our CEO is someone who matters.”

If I were to tell you that I love you, would it not mean, simultaneously, that you matter to me?

With language in mind, let us say just that:

“You matter.”

Let’s go all the way back to the very origin of the word itself.

Matter: The subject of imagination and the substance from which it is made.

Is this dialogue beginning to feel familiar? If not, then allow me to further reduce the word matter.

Matter: the subject of that which is imagined and the sensed evidence of that which was not sensed prior to thought.

This is, perhaps, why we always seem to come back to consciousness as the most essential, fundamental reality. However, this is not what I was driving at here. I wanted to point out that as I try to flesh out matter’s characteristics, it sounds a lot like ancient definitions of faith.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 KJV

Does this synonymize the two terms? I think it does and I believe that if we do that, we are saying what is being said everywhere, in millions of unique ways, by various schools of varied thought: I Am creating the stage upon which I play my part.

I do want to look at that scripture again for a moment. The word “hope” was used as the foundation for what becomes substance. Hope means, in this case, “a desired expectation”. However, the most important feature of hope is not the fact that it points to desire; the most important fact is that it is expected. Hoping, in this context, is not the same as wishing. Wishing is: desire without expectation. It is why we might say, “You wish.” Instead of, “You hope.”

The only trouble with this creative power is that we can create with our expectations, whether it has anything to do with desire or not.

Just remember that you matter; and remember that matter is a verb.