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The divine water was the alpha and omega of the process, desperately sought for by the alchemists as the goal of their desire.

The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Volume 13: Alchemical Studies

To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (1 Cor. 12:8-10)

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

One thing I do know: love, however violent, is pure. And that is how I have come to discover that I am not pure.

Shlomy Mualem, from Literary Writing and Personal Identity in Borges and Pessoa

a mystical centre from which the visible universe emanated...

In order to integrate our unconscious, we must, therefore, create our own bridge. Fundamentally, what this bridge does, is opening the wall which separates the unconscious from the conscious world, […]; where there used to be closed circles, there are now open circles, whereby interaction becomes possible. This is the essence of the individuation process.

I prefer life, yes, to the very God who created it. Since this is the life he gave me, this is the life I’ll live.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

all painters keep at least one cheap ruin of a brush, right?