Quotes About Hermeticism

#1. Han?" "Yeah, sweetie." "How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?" "I don't know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them." "I'll consider that.

Troy Denning

#2. Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Chester A. Arthur

#3. He didn't have to explain what it was. It was there between them, that invisible bond, that strange sense of ease, as though she had known him always. As if her life would be immeasurably the worse for not having him in it.

Beatriz Williams

#4. The only guardians you, as a magician, are likely to meet would be the ones merely trying to protect you from yourself.

Marten Crawford

#5. The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Dion Fortune

#7. We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

Mark O'Connell

#9. The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

Susan Sontag

#10. One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.

Daniel Yankelovich

#13. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

Dion Fortune

#14. My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

Samantha Morton

#15. Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations....

Three Initiates

#16. He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery.

Three Initiates

#17. The truth is more complex than it seems and a good heart has more impact than anyone with a thousand words or actions.

Robin Sacredfire