The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
FRED ALAN WOLFThe real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.
More Fred Alan Wolf Quotes
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Dreams – Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.
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When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I’ve understood, it seems to give people a lift – an unshackling or freeing.
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What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: “as above, so below, as within, so without.”
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The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that’s impossible, and they just can’t see that and it just makes no sense.
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We need all three senses of time – a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past – at all times to understand or experience what’s happening right now. It’s constantly unfolding that way.
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What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
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The place where knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.
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To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
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The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
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Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
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When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.
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The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.
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Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.
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There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it’s often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.
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Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What’s real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.
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