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“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.
The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.
But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.
He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.
'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked.
'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied.
'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.'
'But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.
'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.'
'What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.”
Source: The Alchemist
“The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.”
Source: Psychological Types
“The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.”
“The Alchemist.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“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 by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.”
“The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly. She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.” I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.”
“The Alchemy of Affection by Stewart Stafford
The language of Aphrodite,
Rendering words as liquid gold.
To flood the heart's chambers,
Setting them in gilded aurum bold.
When this opulent heart beats,
Minted blood in golden boughs flows,
In possession of treasure most precious,
Whose true worth none of us knows.
Magnates and moguls may scheme to buy,
The devotion that is never truly theirs,
Count your kisses instead of fortunes,
To bequeath to your loving, rightful heirs.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”
“The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.”
“The alchemy of regret is turning the heavy weight of “I wish I hadn’t,” into the lightness of “I’m grateful I grew.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“The alchemy of time transforms everything into comedy. Everything. Even crucifixion.”
“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
Source: The Alchemy Fire Murder
“The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman.”
“The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally Prometheus turned and glared at the immortal. "If you do that one more time, I'm going to feed you to the Lotan myself." "And I will help," Niten added.”
“The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.”
“The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.”
“The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”
Source: The world within the word: essays
“The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.”
“The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.”
“The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.”
“The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.”
“The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright”
“The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.”
“The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.”
“The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.”
“The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.”
“The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.”
“The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.”
“The Alexandrian Mystics’ emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.”
Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots
“The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862”
“The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.”
“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”
“The algorithm does not clap—it decides who eats.”
— Rob Thrasher, YouTube, Promises Broken”
“The algorithm has become the new biographer of identity - one who edits without consent.”
Source: DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
“The algorithm ponders its own existence”
Source: The Supercomputer with a God Complex: When Artificial Intelligence Needs a Shrink. 25 Mind-Bending AI Therapy Cases.
“The Algorithm was Justice. The Neon God – Judge and Jury.”
Source: 5 Stars
“The algorithms in his hard drive scrambled and his coding short-circuited. Like she’d downloaded a virus right into his system, he got feverishly hot.”
Source: Counterbalance
“The algorithms of superintelligence will change the world in a positive way but trouncing human being will not be possible due to emotions, empathy, social interactions, reproduction, and mortality which are the qualities that belong to humans only.”
“The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.”
Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
“The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802
“The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.”
“The alien reached out her hands to hold Alex’s tightly. “Please. Some of what I want to express, it may be difficult to locate the right words.”
“Of course.”
Pure alabaster eyes stared back at her. “Child, there is a hole in your mind.”
Source: Dissonance
“The alien was an ugly sight, all angles and corners. Like a pentagram might look if it fell into a mathematical blender. No ports, seam lines or anything. Smooth yellow hull. No markings. And it was too close!”
Source: Space Sucks!
“The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.”
“The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”