Attraction, Alchemy, Self-Realization & Poetry

Some beautiful quotes from "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho:


“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.”

“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. “

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” You’ve got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense. “

“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.”

“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald.”

Emerald Tablet of Hermes:


Translated by Idres Shah

1) The truth, certainty, truest, without untruth.
2 )What is above is like what is below. What is below is like what is above. The miracle of unity is to be attained.
3) Everything is formed from the contemplation of unity, and all things come about from unity, by means of adaptation.
4) Its parents are the Sun and Moon.
5) It was borne by the wind and nurtured by the Earth.
6) Every wonder is from it
6a) and its power is complete.
7) Throw it upon earth,
7a) and earth will separate from fire. The impalbable separated from the palpable.
8) Through wisdom it rises slowly from the world to heaven. Then it descends to the world combining the power of the upper and the lower.
9 )Thus you will have the illumination of all the world, and darkness will disappear.
10) This is the power of all strength- it overcomes that which is delicate and penetrates through solids.
11a) This was the means of the creation of the world.
12) And in the future wonderful developements will be made, and this is the way.
13) I am Hermes the Threefold Sage, so named because I hold the three elements of all wisdom.
14) And thus ends the revelation of the work of the Sun.
(Shah 1964: 198).

"Word Roots Related to the Elements"

TEXT:
c. 1369, "An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns -- but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth." [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]


INFLUENCE:
c.1374, an astrological term, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of wo/men," from O.Fr. influence "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny" (13c.), also "a flow of water," from M.L. influentia "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense), from L. influentem (nom. influens), prp. of influere "to flow into," from in- "in" + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Meaning "exercise of personal power by human beings" is from 1439; meaning "exertion of unseen influence by persons" is from 1588 (a sense already in M.L., e.g. Aquinas). Under the influence "drunk" first attested 1866. Influential "powerful" is from 1734.


FOCUS:
c.1644, from L. focus "hearth, fireplace," of unknown origin, used in post-classical times for "fire" itself, taken by Kepler (1604) in a mathematical sense for "point of convergence," perhaps on analogy of the burning point of a lens (the purely optical sense of the word may have existed before 1604, but it is not recorded). Introduced into Eng. 1656 by Hobbes. Sense transfer to "center of activity or energy" is first recorded 1796. The verb is first attested 1814 in the literal sense; the fig. sense is recorded earlier (1807).


AURA:
c1859, "subtle emanation around living beings;" earlier "gentle breeze" (1398), from L. aura "breeze, wind, air," from Gk. aura "breath, breeze," from PIE base *awer-.


AUREOLE:
c.1220, from L. fem. adj. dim. of aureus "golden." Found in medieval Christianity and ancient Persian and Egyptian images, the celestial crown worn by martyrs, virgins, holy figures, as victors over the flesh. "luminous disk round the head, it is called specifically a halo or nimbus, while the combination of nimbus and aureole is called a glory."


"Talking butterflies and living rainbows" ~Brother Eclipse


If love is the key
then allow me to open
Doors that lead us
2 truths unspoken
This love is a circle
that remains unbroken

A magical force
that holds us 2gether
That nurtures our souls
beyond visible measure
The moments we share
I will 4ever treasure

Like in the sea of the sky
The stars are millions
So i revel in our light
Imbued in the brilliance
of your eternal reflection
Renewed by the substance
of our sublime connection

We have traveled far
2 arrive in this moment
Let us fully embody
this truth
and own it

ON ONE

UNIFY, HARMONIZE
REALIZE THE U IN I

RESPIRE TO ASPIRE
WHAT WE DESIRE
TO INSPIRE

LOVE'S FIRE♥
BURNING UP
ALL THE LIARS

WE COULDN''T GET
MUCH HIGHER
EVEN IF WE TRIED

ADMIRE THE FIRELIGHT
IN YOUR EYES
CAN'T DENY HOW
WE INSPIRE INSIGHT

REMOVE OBSTACLES
LIKE FREEWAY LIVING
THIS LOVE I'M GIVING
IS ONE_OF_A-KIND

UNIFY HARMONIZE
REALIZE THE U IN I

02-18-06 UNI