122 quotes found
“Once we merge with the CoreTrusting the efficiencyOf our Souls intentThe Flow becomesThe only possible direction”
“It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!”
“Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.”
“I deny morality as I deny alchemy.”
“Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small...”
“The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can b...”
“The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.”
“Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.”
“Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.”
“Within the earths womb each metal grows slowly developing and transforming into its perfection, its highest manifestation gold. Nature and God are striving towards perfection, everything moves tow...”
“She said to herself: 'Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, what ghost, what dream has not worn itinfants, angels, priests, the dead; whyshould not the docto...”
“Most of [the alchemists] were poor; many all but unknown in their own time, many died and saw no fruit of their labours Of some the very names are forgotten. But though their names be dead, their w...”
“The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere in...”
“If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.”
“As above in consciousness, so below in matter”
“There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, W...”
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves”
“He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transfor...”
“With every vial of success there is always a pinch of madness.”
“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”
