"It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done."

-- Karel Capek

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“Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.”

Source : Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”
“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”
“I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.”
“Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.”
“In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.”
“Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.”
“The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes. Rather, at that moment the initiated disciples of the Lord 'passed', as we have been taught, 'from flesh to spirit' by the transformation of their senses, which the Spirit wrought in them, and so they saw that ineffable light, when and as much as the Holy Spirit's power granted them to do so.”

Source : "The homilies".

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