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

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

She said to herself: ‘Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, what ghost, what dream has not worn it—infants, angels, priests, the dead; why—should not the doctor, in the...

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

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...

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...

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

With every vial of success there is always a pinch of madness.

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...

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy...

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 quantities…. thats...

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

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 intervenes; the end remains as dark as the...

Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

Sure all life’s highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out…And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may...

Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.”- Lady Lalaigne

Co se od našich vzorů můžeme naučit, je především ta skutečnost, že duše skrývá obsahy nebo je vystavena vlivům, jejichž asimilace se pojí s největšími nebezpečími. Když tedy staří alchymisté své tajemství připisovali hmotě a...

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

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...

More and more obstacles seem to be other people’s issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time...

Fire isn’t always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

Bells Ring, Drums ResoundWhen a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that...

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

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...

With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time...

Raft and NetTo cross a river you need a raft; once the river has been crossed, the raft can be left behind. To catch fish you need a net; once the fish are caught, the...

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...

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one...

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

In these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles…by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing,...

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. When I was thirteen years of age,...

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very...

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then...

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.

My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.

To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind.

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 transformation.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Lessons echo until you let go.