The Art of Transmutation Quotes

“In every place, no matter where you look, there are nooks that one seems to see, odd little spaces and hidden corners that hide from the world in plain sight. In every single square inch of the world, no matter how populated, there are what could be called liminal places, tiny little spaces, sometimes vast stretches,
where the average laws of space and time are not wholly adhered to, you might say.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Transmutation happens through a process of inner action. Transmutation is the key principle that unlocks a door, and as you will discover in time, it is the unlocking of this door that will break the bonds of the trap that you are currently in. The way of inner alchemy is basically a way to escape that trap.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Words lie and we have all forgotten how to see.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“That is our odd lot and our fate in this world, it is as if this entire world is designed to make us forget our true nature so that we focus wholly and solely on physical reality and the physical aspects of existence.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“I refuse to believe that there is no such thing as evil.”
“A nonbeliever who believes,” the shadowed man laughed. When he finally stopped laughing, he took a deep breath and continued, “From your point of view, as an ordinary human, there is evil in the world. But there are broader views, more expansive ways to see the world, and from those more complicated causal insights, the nature of three-dimensional good and evil does not apply. This means that in the path that we follow, we are forced, commanded, to explore realms that are so far away from the common human world, that our understanding of good and evil become the first things to fall along the long road to infinity.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“If a person relies too much on authority outside of themselves, it is very easy to lose yourself in that routine. That routine ‘in time’ becomes unconscious and those unconscious beliefs become invisible to the self. These unconscious beliefs then create bridges to a certain kind of understanding, but they also block you from perceiving other possibilities. If that external authority and those unconscious beliefs are never examined, then we can become imprisoned within cages that were created by others.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“At that moment he happily became the ‘walking crazy’: those who are conscious of the fact that they have lost their sanity, and that in losing their sanity, they have reached a higher level of existence. And as the walking crazy, the young man closed his eyes and fell deeply within, finding there not darkness but other worlds, complete other spaces where he was free from all physical pain and struggle.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is merely a way for them to feel the possibility of power without having to ever see it or touch it. As I told you, a part of them knows that the unfathomable is around them and yet another part of them denies this to keep the stability of their lives. One belief is pitted against another and in the end, people are stuck, stationary.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“That is the funny thing about reality, a more reasonable part of you can always find just the right thing to say. There will always be, if you look hard enough, reason to doubt everything. But for now, let us pretend that we are truly insane and that in
trying to teach you my insanity, to answer your questions about the kind of insanity that I adhere to, I must tell you about the un-manifest and the manifested. In doing so you will begin to understand the true nature of reality for a raving lunatic like me.
But I must tell you that this form of insanity is not mine alone, there are others who walk a path that is like my own and the key component of that lunacy is called transmutation.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“I am someone who has stepped through the door, someone who has accepted the possibility of a life beyond routine and self-misery. I have accepted the challenge of life and I now see it as something that must be overcome. I challenge you, young man, to see the weight and measure of life, to look for the places
in between here and there, and to try and battle against that devil that screams in your head, that devil that wants to make you take the easy path, that makes you want to hate yourself and the world, that wants to make you think that somehow you are special in your struggles and in your fate. Wake up boy, or the only thing that you will ever find at the end of all your routine and self-misery, is your death”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Every person on this earth struggles to one degree or
another, and the fate of each one of those people has been written by forces beyond your imagination. And yet, and this is the odd part to me, we are and have always been fully responsible for our entire lives. What a marvel, what a great conundrum.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Everything has a price in this world, even a gift.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Most of us do not wish to know, even as the matrix bleeds from every rotten corner. It is only when darkness has descended upon us and our evening looms heavy that we finally and desperately seek whatever little hope there is to be found.
But in those fading moments, we do not truly desire
enlightenment; we merely yearn for some semblance of hope - a promise that we will endure the darkness and the never-ending void that now weighs down our rigid limbs with the threat of finality”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“The Spirit reveals itself to us all the time, at every turn, but we choose to look away from it and only see the mundane because deep down no matter how much we say otherwise, most of us cannot at the core of us truly believe that there is something beyond the physical.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation