The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set out to create the characters - they're not, to me, collections of quirks that I can put together. I discover the characters, instead. I usually go through a standard set of interview questions with the character in the beginning and ask the vital stuff: What's important to you? What do you love? Hate? Fear?. . and then I know where to start. But the characters just grow on their own, at a certain point. And start surprising me.
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.
Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.
The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting. . . By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.
What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.
You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
