Alchemical Wisdom Quotes

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

This theory rapidly became an article of faith because it appealed to the factors that, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, most contribute to the formation of conventional wisdom: the ease with which an idea may be understood and the degree to which it affects our personal well-being. ~ Steven D. Levitt

I would like to touch your soul and melt with your heart forever. I am sending my love, thoughts, and imagination for you as a believer. ~ Debasish Mridha

Without dreams life is a desert,
like a rose garden without rose. ~ Debasish Mridha

When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom. ~ Debasish Mridha

All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe. ~ Forrest Curran

When you're in love, life is a kiss.
When you are in doubt life is amiss. ~ Debasish Mridha

To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love is a divine energy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We love certain things because they are longing for us. ~ Debasish Mridha

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you're equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can't give, that just proves that you haven't understood anything. Take things as they come; don't turn them into a drama. You're not piloting the ship, you're following the course of your destiny. ~ Yasmina Khadra

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground. ~ L. Quick

Knowledge is an artist, wisdom is its masterpiece. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it.
A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. ~ James Salter

Deep love is like a deep ocean. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom. ~ Jack Kornfield

Wisdom: Mate, we're up to our necks in Skrulls! But we remembered the treaty: mutual protection. Here we are! Now, I've lost a couple of people I care about in quick succession, and I am taking no more bollocks from you. I've got this voice in my head, it's half Gandalf and half Mr. Kipling. Who is that?!
Oberon: A VOICE?! YOU MUST NOT FOLLOW IT! IT'S THE MAD ONE, THE DEMON WHO KILLED HIS OWN CHILD AND LED EVERYONE TO DESTRUCTION! THE HIGHER EVOLUTIONARIES OF ALL THE WORLDS HAVE ONLY JUST SUCCEEDED IN CONFINING HIM TO THE DARK REALMS!
Wisdom: Oh. Right. Him. Well, I'm gonna stop following that voice then. Obviously. ~ Paul Cornell

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual. ~ Plato

Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The key to wisdom is this
constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. ~ Pierre Abelard

The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind. ~ Steven Magee

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil? ~ John Milton

The deepest pain gives the clearest view of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

A man must ... not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully. ~ Giovanni Della Casa

And then come and join us in a toast. I'm about to whisk Lauren off to Las Vegas to get married. The plane is being refueled and checked out right now."
"Does Lauren know about this?" Mary said, frowning. "She's downstairs in Jim's office, hard at work."
"I'll convince her of the wisdom of the plan."
"When the plane is airborne and she has no choice," Ericka put in with a knowing smile.
"Exactly." Nick grinned in high good spirits. He had missed her so much that he'd called her three times a day, every day, like a lovesick schoolboy. ~ Judith McNaught

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is impotency being haunted by things we can't change; being stuck in your own damn mistakes isn't healthy. But when I think about
the things I need to do right now, and possibly won't, because I'd rather talk myself out of doing something that's coming from my heart, there's impotency in that, as well, and it's the worst kind of indifference, Spider; it's not doing what your heart is telling you to do. And there you'll be, old and dying, with regrets deep as the Seneca, and maybe even longer. ~ Vera Jane Cook

...Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom. ~ Bede Griffiths

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication. ~ Idries Shah

It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy. ~ Brent Jones

There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology. ~ Carrie Newcomer

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest. ~ Radhe Maa

Do you know where the dead spirits depart to? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health ... it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here! ~ Audra McDonald

It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate. ~ Lloyd C. Douglas

Battles like that ... They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don't. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacrifice, every small act of defiance adds up.. ~ Kaitlin Bevis

Life unexamined, is not worth living. ~ Democritus

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ~ H.L. Mencken

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim ... ~ Evelyn Waugh

Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you. ~ Angela Mayah Solstice

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom. ~ Marina Warner

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is information; wisdom is knowing how to use it. ~ Roy Eugene Davis

You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy. ~ Roopleen

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. ~ Thomas Carlyle