Be not another, if you can be yourself.
PARACELSUSBe not another, if you can be yourself.
PARACELSUSThoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
PARACELSUSThe human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUSThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
PARACELSUSAll things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
PARACELSUSAnd it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
PARACELSUSHowever, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
PARACELSUSOnce a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
PARACELSUSAll arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
PARACELSUSI am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUSNature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
PARACELSUSMan is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
PARACELSUSIt is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
PARACELSUSThe highest degree of a medicine is Love.
PARACELSUSWhat the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUSMagic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
PARACELSUS