"The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason."

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Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.533, New Directions Publishing

Hilda Doolittle

#Faith Quotes #Magic Quotes #Stones Quotes

“True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.”
“Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In school I was pretty fast.”
“No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
“Making art is a journey.”
“I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.”
“My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.”
“We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.”

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