alchemy notes

p. 58 every blessing ignored becomes a curse

p. 70 universal language written with the words luck and coincidence

p. 74 the boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.

p. 87 Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the language of the world

p. 78 “That’s the principle that governs all things,” he said.  “In alchemy, it’s called the soul of the world.  When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the soul of the world.  It’s always a positive force.”  (my ital)

p. 103 And God only rarely reveals the future.  When he does so, it is for only one reason:  it’s a future that was written so as to be altered.

P. 130 Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

from Coehlo’s The Alchemist

the tigers i am seeing too

You hit the ground running with a terrifying speed
But it’s the ground you cover that terrifies me
And brace yourself for the sound of bleeding

‘Cause bleeding hearts bleed
Bleeding hearts bleed
Bleeding hearts bleed

And “please” is not a word that I ever say quietly…

You said your love was fierce, fierce, fierce
You said your love was fierce, it’s true
You said your love was fierce, fierce, fierce
You said your love was fierce and I agree with you

His child of the future is the child I am seeing, too
You said your love was fierce and I agree with you
These tigers at heart are the tigers I am seeing, too
You said your love was fierce and I agree with you

lyrics from swan lake’s ‘are you swimming in her pools’
i freakin love this band 

unpopularity

 One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular. —Carl Jung 


well if i  had a ‘real world’ resume, i could cite expertise in unpopularity since i was a scrawny little girl.

as clay

A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -Jorge Luis Borges