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#1

“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 an effort to grow some killer weed”
― Drew Hayes, The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

tags: alchemy, botany, chemistry, humor, magic, weed

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#2

“There was an old belief that in the embers
Of all things their primordial form exists,
And cunning alchemists
Could re-create the rose with all its members
From its own ashes, but without the bloom,
Without the lost perfume
Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science
Can from the ashes in our hearts once more
The rose of youth restore?
What craft of alchemy can bid defiance
To time and change, and for a single hour
Renew this phantom-flower?”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: alchemy, longfellow, lost-youth, rose, youth

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#3

“Every time love touches my heart, I am changed. And each time the identity I had thought to be mine and to be my last, dissolves like raindrops into the ground, ready to nourish the new I have found.”
― Atalina Wright, Alchemical Love: Poems, Thoughts and Stories for the Heart and Soul

tags: alchemy, love, love-quotes, quotes

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#4

“As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.
And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.
You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.
That’s the alchemy of art.”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

tags: alchemy, art, audience, change, courage, creativity, experience, impact, progress, project, publishing, sharing, work

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#5

“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!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

tags: alchemy, attitude, gold, happiness, mood, motivation, storm, thoughts, weather

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#6

“The duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.”
― Robin Sacredfire

tags: alchemy, choices, decisions, dogma, leadership, life, psychiatry, psychology, religion, self-improvement, spirituality

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#7

“The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life.”
― Robin Sacredfire

tags: alchemy, evil, evil-people, evilness, religion, spirituality

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#8

“Our desires, dreams and hopes, open portals. These portals manifest in our conscience and five senses, in the form of decisions related to the material world but also opportunities. Now, at the exact same time, or maybe even slightly before in time, we get the exact opposite, the temptation, the illusion and deception. And when we are about to make a decision, as if by magic, the two things come stronger to us, as if pushing us into a duality that makes it hard to decide. Now, this brings me to another super interesting fact: Most people assume that they have freewill, and that choices are hard to be made, and that life is full of dualities. And I've learned that this is just a great deception related to our planet, which, as human beings, we must transcend. And what I'm really saying here is that the duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.”
― Robin Sacredfire

tags: alchemy, choices, decisions, dogma, leadership, life, psychiatry, psychology, religion, self-improvement, spirituality

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#9

“The Alchemical world view, in stark contrast to the scientific world view, where rational deterministic man is completely separated from both Nature and the Self, in fact the Self does not even exist. In the alchemical world view, all three are inextricably woven together and in "synchronistic" or "archetypal" events & occurrences in one's life, all distinctions between them blur and almost disappear.”
― Craig Nelson

tags: alchemy, archetypes, individuation, man, nature, psychology, self, synchronicity

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#10

“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 your soul can't interact with the world. The key is we need to understand that all races, ethnic groups, cultures and like treasures are equal and we must remember to follow our soul rather than our identity. The identity is something the soul works through, not the other way around.”
― Rebekah Gamble

tags: alchemy, culture, inspirational, metaphysics, race, shamanism

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#11

“There's always an antagonistic personality in any group, simply because life isn't meant to be simple. Our thoughts can be clear, we may know what we want, but life will always show us the duality, simply because that's how things are meant to be. Before a three, there's a two. Before the change, there is the choice. it's just what it is. And yet, the antagonist is often the one we love the most, because that's how his temptation can lead us astray.”
― Robin Sacredfire

tags: alchemy

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#12

“Fighting a dragon without a shield or a sword. That is what losing the one we love means.”
― Daniel Marques

tags: alchemy, love

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#13

“Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

tags: alchemy, gast, merlin, spirit

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#14

“Love's alchemical power is nevermore clear than in the moments when we least expect it to grace our lives; for love transforms, love transcends, love awakens.”
― Atalina Wright, Alchemical Love: Poems, Thoughts and Stories for the Heart and Soul

tags: alchemical, alchemy, empowering-quotes, heart, inspirational, love, love-quotes, poems, quotes, soul, spiritual, spiritual-quotes

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#15

“Fear is only the enemy if you let it keep you from moving forward.

Put fear on your side and let it motivate you.

This is the definition of an alchemist. To turn base metal into gold. Fear into Motivation.”
― Matthew Donnelly

tags: alchemy, fear, motivation

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#16

“What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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#17

“Transcendence is more about the personal act of not engaging the enemy, finding a way out of the cage that is being designed for you at a particular moment by others, circumstance, or your own bad habits and ignorance.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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#18

“Alchemy is taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained.”
― Kenneth Coombs, Tarot Alchemy: A Complete Analysis of the Major Arcana

tags: alchemy, definition

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#19

“Lot of damn mixin' things up and saying, hey, what'll happen if we add a drop of the yellow stuff, and then goin' around without yer eyebrows for a fortnight.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

tags: alchemy, humour, science

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#20

“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 conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.”
― Keith Carter

tags: alchemy, magic, photography

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#21

“Lessons echo until you let go.”
― Jennifer Sodini

tags: alchemy, consciousness, hermetic-philosophy, hermetica, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, law-of-attraction, lessons, life-lessons, love-quotes, spiritual, spirituality

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#22

“The infinite possibilities that exist in any given moment cause infinite possibilities in response. The wording is correct here; the possibilities exist already, and have already caused the existing possibilities of response.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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#23

“Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

tags: alchemy, appreciation, asian-philosophy, buddhism, cobalt-saffron-retreat, cobaltsaffron, cobaltsaffron-retreat, comparative-religion, conscience, creativity, curiosity, darrell-calkins, darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron, darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron, darrell-calkins-retreat, darrell-calkins-seminar, evolution, happiness, humor, imagination, inspiration, intuition, mysticism, personal-skills-development, purpose, respect, taoism, transformation, well-being, zen

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#24

“Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation. I’d written before some years ago that we often cause suffering in another so that we can then love them, as in, “You have suffered for me, so I can love you now.” The eventual shock of realizing the sacrifice made for you destroys the walls of self-righteousness and protection. The suffering sacrifice of another creates the willingness and capacity to do the same. Finally, love and respect (respect is part of the body of love) come from the recognition of something else already given up for them.
Within the individual, you or me, a similar process takes place toward oneself. It is as if we know some- where that we are not worthy of our own love or respect until we have earned the right to it, and that is mainly through some kind of suffering. That suffering may be generic, as in a life lived in which tragedy after tragedy accumulate, or it may be specific, as in the constant sacrifice of other easier things for a being or vision. Or, perhaps more correctly, it is either consciously chosen or not.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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#25

“Transcendence is a word I don’t use often; I prefer transformation. Why? Because the essential game is about using what is in front of you and in you exactly as it is, but finding a way to do something with that that is surprising and an expression of inspiration and intuition. You engage reality and make something out of it that only you can, alchemizing limitation, conflict or what appears to be bad into something else.”
― Darrell Calkins

tags: alchemy, asian-philosophy, buddhism, cobalt-saffron-retreat, cobaltsaffron, cobaltsaffron-retreat, comparative-religion, conscience, creativity, curiosity, darrell-calkins, darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron, darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron, darrell-calkins-retreat, darrell-calkins-seminar, evolution, happiness, humor, inspiration, intuition, mysticism, personal-skills-development, purpose, taoism, transcendence, transformation, well-being, zen

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#26

“The ability to remain constant, whole and playful, even while working technically, concentrating and upholding urgency, is essential to achieve a state of balance that will allow for this to happen. This has to come to life, and cannot stay just an idea or hope or intention or imitation, or ignored. The guarantee and proof that this balance and power is real is in its actualization. That is, that it manifests in functional reality. As in any intention, whether that be vague or specific, an ambition or desire, a goal or state of being, a question or hope, a curiosity or purpose, there exist natural and unnatural obstacles to its realization.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

tags: alchemy, asian-philosophy, buddhism, cobalt-saffron-retreat, cobaltsaffron, cobaltsaffron-retreat, comparative-religion, conscience, creativity, curiosity, darrell-calkins, darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron, darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron, darrell-calkins-retreat, darrell-calkins-seminar, evolution, happiness, humor, imagination, inspiration, intuition, mysticism, personal-skills-development, purpose, taoism, transformation, well-being, zen

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#27

“If your curiosity reaches a breaking point (compelled actually means that you only have the remaining choice to act on it, having tried all the other options before), and becomes fascination with mystery or truth, you find what you need. Maybe it’s a person, maybe it’s a tragedy, maybe it’s an explosive recognition that, “My God, I’m still alive.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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#28

“Life will give you what you need once you will do something with it. It may not give you what you want so as to be as comfortable as you want, as Nature’s concern is need as it relates to evolution. In my humble opinion, Nature is too kind, but, as I say, the game is big, and the challenges and temptations absolute. And this is a fascinating aspect of the totality of beauty; it gives more than is only necessary. The generosity is mind- and heart boggling.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

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