{"quotes":[{"text":"My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.","author":"Avery Williams","tags":["alchemy","forever","humor","teenage-boys"],"id":573,"author_id":"Avery+Williams"},{"text":"The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["alchemy","darkness","eternal","life","light","poem","spiritual","spirituality","trust","trusting","wisdom","work"],"id":768,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["alchemy","science"],"id":1002,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["alchemy","attitude","gold","happiness","mood","motivation","storm","thoughts","weather"],"id":21715,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"In these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles...By choosing first courage, then diligence, standing, opening our mouth and speaking the truth that in rare moments, may ignite the light.","author":"Tom Althouse","tags":["alchemy","awakening","awareness","buddhism","change","consciousness","courage","create-your-life","create-your-reality","dont-give-up","enlightenment","evolution","growth","intelligence","not-giving-up","transformation","truth","wisdom"],"id":22735,"author_id":"Tom+Althouse"},{"text":"The duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.","author":"Robin Sacredfire","tags":["alchemy","choices","decisions","dogma","leadership","life","psychiatry","psychology","religion","self-improvement","spirituality"],"id":28862,"author_id":"Robin+Sacredfire"},{"text":"Becoming 'color blind' isn't helpful. Who you are matters, how you are matters. Things like race and culture are a manifestation of flows of creation. Your identity doesn't just matter, without it your soul can't interact with the world. The key is we need to understand that all races, ethnic groups, cultures and like treasures are equal and we must remember to follow our soul rather than our identity. The identity is something the soul works through, not the other way around.","author":"Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble","tags":["alchemy","culture","inspirational","metaphysics","race","shamanism"],"id":39326,"author_id":"Rebekah+Elizabeth+Gamble"},{"text":"Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.","author":"Tom Althouse","tags":["acceptance","alchemy","awareness","blessing","buddhism","change","consciousness","courage","create-your-life","create-your-reality","dont-give-up","enlightenment","evolution","experience","freedom","growth","healthy-living","inspiration","intelligence","intention","letting-go","limitation","miracles","non-attachment","not-giving-up","reality","resistance","self-awareness","self-transformation","spiritual","subconscious-mind","suffering","teaching","transformation","truth","wisdom-awakening"],"id":45482,"author_id":"Tom+Althouse"},{"text":"Bells Ring, Drums ResoundWhen a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound.What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of true emptiness and ineffable existence.True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck. If people can keep this true emptiness as their essence, and utilize this ineffable existence as their function, ever serene yet ever responsive, ever responsive yet ever serene, tranquil and unstirring yet sensitive and effective, sensitive and effective yet tranquil and unstirring, empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation, then when the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.","author":"Liu Yiming","tags":["alchemy","attainment","awakening","buddha-nature","emptiness","harmony","tao","taoism","the-creative","ultimate-ground"],"id":49421,"author_id":"Liu+Yiming"},{"text":"The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["alchemy","asian-philosophy","beauty","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","evolution","faith","happiness","humor","imagination","inspiration","intuition","mysticism","personal-skills-development","purpose","taoism","transformation","well-being","zen"],"id":58839,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}