It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the reciprocal nature of desire and attachment towards objects or relationships.
Sheila Heti suggests that the significance of objects in our lives is often determined by a mutual desire. When something holds importance to us, it's usually because it reciprocates our affection and attention; in contrast, those that do not share this connection tend to be forgotten or fade away.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about materialism at a philosophy class.
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.
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