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Quotes About Transmutation

Common quicksilver exhibits a great 'desire' to combine with related metals. With quicksilver, metal workers can make gold and silver liquid. Quicksilver amalgam has been used since early times to gild metal objects. After application of the liquid amalgam, the quicksilver can be eliminated by fire, and the gold remains. Gold can also be extracted from other minerals by washing with quicksilver.
~ Titus Burckhardt
Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.
~ Ovid
Guv," she said to Baron. "What do you know about how to …" She opened and clenched her hands. "How to make big shit go into something little?
~ China Mieville
When you bless somebody with love and with what is best for him, you repel and transmute the negative thoughts that are directed to you. This is based on the Law of Repulsion that unlike qualities repel.
~ Choa Kok Sui
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
~ Henry Miller
The special skill of esoteric Buddhism is transmutation by right view and pure perception, using all appropriate means for training. For example, eating food is not itself a Buddhist practice, but if one uses it as a means of training, it becomes a Buddhist training in transforming one's daily life as Buddhist practice.
~ Tulku Thondup
Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy to sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck
In his family the dead were much discussed. He absorbed the content of these conversations and transmuted them into what passed for memory. This serves the purpose. The dead don't come back, to quibble or correct.
~ Hilary Mantel
Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.
~ Holly Black
Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it is sated, it transmutes. If we receive the golden thread, we desire the golden needle.
~ Holly Black
There is energy released from within that carries with it the power to heal. First destruction, then creation… The fire burns through the old structures eradicating them, transmuting their energies to a higher vibrational level. Then the creative energy released from the destruction allows for the cure of whatever ails the body.
~ Unknown
God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and emerges only later. To, perhaps, our waiting heirs. Paltry people who will not know the dreadful war we've gone through, and the losses we took, unless in some footnote in a minor history book they catch a notion. Some brief mention. With no list of the fallen.
~ Philip K. Dick
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
~ Dean Koontz
La función de un elemento nutritivo es la de transmutarse, no la de imprimir huellas indelebles.
~ Idries Shah
For workplace physical stressors, I advise adding pink to our physical energetic boundary to transmute negativity for positive outcomes; gold to command change and immediately stop an energetic, personal, or professional attack; green to stop a repetitive pattern and initiate a new track; and silver to deflect others' issues and energies back to them.
~ Unknown
victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
~ Dean Koontz
And as far as metals are concerned, they are all composed of sulphur and mercury and can be condensed or materialised by means of a salt.
~ Unknown
Heartache is the life force of my people, the agent that ripples eternity and causes history to arc into big crashing waves. Heartache may pass and disappear. Heartache is still there, it is merely invisible, plotting. Heartache is the constant. Heartache is the through line, the central core on which we all radiate, the agent of change. Heartache can neither be created nor destroyed, only transmuted. Heartache is the score and the game; heartache is our eternal currency.
~ Unknown
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.
~ Unknown
because in the Dissolving, the fire should be light always, in the Sublimation mean, in the Coagulation temperate, continual in the Whitening, and strong in the Rubification.
~ Unknown
which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of the true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.
~ Unknown
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
~ E M Forster
The fine structure constant] ... defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on Earth were made. Its value controls the power from the Sun and, more sensitively, how stars transmute hydrogen into all the atoms of the periodic table.
~ Martin Rees