I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.
Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.
Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together. ” “No,” I said. “No?” “We’re, uh, not in West Virginia.
If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.
This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims. ' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.
The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.
If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir. . . designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.
