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“The seed of all this is imagination. But when you think of imagination, it helps to view it more as it exists in the rest of nature, rather than as we tend to see it in humans. That is, that imagin...”
“In an animals or a plants expression of imagination (lets leave out the rest for now, so we dont have to deal with the question of consciousness in, for example, minerals), there is always purity i...”
“One could make a nice link between imagination and spirit. To make that link, all we need is some inspiration. Essentially, imagination has the innate potential to compel or inspire and to set in m...”
“Preceding the birth of every religion, there was someone who was an incarnation of this process: imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which causes imaginationthe dynamic t...”
“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. ...”
“The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.”
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Aspergers syndrom...”
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old mans face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a buildi...”
“Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, i...”
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating based ...”
“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the sma...”
“The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.”
“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning about because I wanted to get better with botany, which I had taken up studying in a...”
“I think there is an element of magic in photography light, chemistry, precious metals a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjur...”
“With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.”
“...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...”
“Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.”
“The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again.The one who wanted her baby back lost chan...”
“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life exp...”
“Becoming 'color blind' isn't helpful. Who you are matters, how you are matters. Things like race and culture are a manifestation of flows of creation. Your identity doesn't just matter, without it ...”
