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Quotes About Transmute

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.
~ Adoniram Judson Gordon
XIV. Pour thine all freely from the Vase in thy right hand, and lose no drop! Hath not thy left hand a vase? Transmute all wholly into the Image of thy Will, bringing each to its true token of Perfection! Dissolve the Pearl in the Wine-cup: drink, and make manifest the Virtue of that Pearl!
~ Aleister Crowley
Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...
~ John Geddes
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
~ Bertrand Russell
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, mitigate, counteract, or transmute.
~ Stephen A. Diamond
The life of a soul does not consist in the contemplation of one consistent world but in the painful task of unifying . . . jarring and incompatible ones, and passing, when possible, from two or more discordant viewpoints to a higher which shall somehow include and transmute them.
~ T.S. Eliot
He should have told us that the ether in which this little earth floats, in which we move and have our being, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which ADAPTS itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and INFLUENCES us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity.
~ George F. Will
...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Many spiritual teachings say we can transmute our negative karma by using spiritual tools.
~ Kim Michaels
Some translators turn an author's words from gold to stone, others from stone to gold.
~ Terri Guillemets
Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, "use Law against Laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph.
~ Three Initiates
Chaos Is God's most dangerous face— Amorphous, roiling, hungry. Shape Chaos— Shape God. Act. Alter the speed Or the direction of Change. Vary the scope of Change. Recombine the seeds of Change. Transmute the impact of Change. Seize Change. Use it. Adapt and grow.
~ Octavia E. Butler