#alchemy

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#alchemy #stars #age

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#better #chef #combine #cook #delectable

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

#always #divinity #enthusiasm #i #like

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#alchemy #bring #course #education #focused

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne ↗

— A.K. Luthienne

#alchemy-of-the-word #metaphysics #science #science

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance. ↗

— Charles Williams

#christian-hermeticism #inspirational #supernatural #tarot #inspirational

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#suffering #life

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #magic #moonlight #love

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 on their actions when in fact the rewards are randomly awarded. People will latch onto any seeming success and repeat it, even when they have to explain repeated failures as well. It appears practically impossible, or at least very rare, for humans not to be influenced by immediate experiences of concrete results. This is true even if the experiences turn out to have limited theoretical validity. The moment of surprise is not when people repeat alchemical failures but when they begin to do something else. ↗

— Naomi Janowitz

#magic #magical-thinking #prayer #religion #ritual

Two years away. To an Incarnate, it's nothing. But when you have people who care about you, who you're excited about, each day becomes significant. ↗

— Avery Williams

#alchemy-of-forever #incarnate #incarnation #life #love