Information collected along the way.

Confucious said, by the time you are 50 you should know the decrees of heaven,
and you should be living by them, You might say not know, but the answer comes
if not now when. Any day is a good day to start. May you get it when you are
young and go on to do great things.             Confucious.

When an artist makes an image from a piece of stone,
He does not put the image into the stone.
He cuts off that which has concealed and covered up the image.        Salvador Dali.

There was a time when Egyptians had carnelian placed round the entrance
to their home, as a protection against evil.
If carnelian your mascot be,it brings happiness, and welfare to thee.
It drives away , all wrong apace, protecting you and all your place.

There are two methods of obtaining knowledge,one by argument,
the other by experiment. Argument make conclusions, and force us to
agree with them.
It does not make us feel certain or remove suspicion, that the mind
rests in assurance of Truth, unless this be found by experience.         Roger Bacon.

Now I realize that not infrequently, books speak of books. It is as if
they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed
all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of long centuries old
murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between, one parchment and another.
A burning thing, a receptacle of powers, not to be ruled by a human hand.
A treasure of secrets, emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those
who had produced them, or had been their conveyors.      U Eco.

The downward inclination of a stone is in it. No one can deprive it of this.
The stone does this work without intermission, day and night.
Even though it lay up above for a thousand years. It would incline
downwards neither more nor less than on the first day.

There are truths of a subtle and divine order to express, which in all their
inviolate completeness, human language seems almost incapable.
Only music, or poetry, can sometimes make the soul feel them.
Only ecstasy can show them, in absolute vision.
Only esoteric symbolism can reveal them to the spirit in a concrete way.    S Guaita.