One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. ("He shall sit as a refiner"; the gold- or silversmith never leaves his crucible once it is on the fire.) In the red glow lay a common curved roof tile; another tile covered it like a lid. This was the crucible. In it was the medicine made of salt, tamarind fruit and burnt brick dust, and imbedded in it was the gold. The medicine does its appointed work on the gold, "then the fire eats it," and the goldsmith lifts the gold out with a pair of tongs, lets it cool, rubs it between his fingers, and if not satisfied puts it back again in fresh medicine. This time he blows the fire hotter than it was before, and each time he puts the gold into the crucible, the heat of the fire is increased; "it could not bear it so hot at first, but it can bear it now; what would have destroyed it then helps it now." "How do you know when the gold is purified?" we asked him, and he answered, "When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.
Amy CarmichaelTags: pain gold suffering fire heat face silver pure see refiner
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
Jodi PicoultEyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that already written in heart.
Tags: mind heart eyes capture written see
Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.
Noel LangleyThe trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
Wendy MassConfidence is seen, not heard.
Kelly ClarksonTags: confidence see hear
We always protect our heads, our faces,' he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her left. It's pure instinct; to shield the eyes. The irony is that the blind have no eyes to protect, and suffer most of their injuries on their legs. But instinct can be blind, too.
Melinda CrossTags: vision darkness lion eyes of blind see handicapped
Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are
Margaret LandonDo not look too far for you will see nothing.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom books poetry philosophy literature poets seeing quotes nothing see poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun too-far
Total knowledge is annihilation
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel
The world sensed only through senses
And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
Tags: wisdom knowledge poetry literature touch feelings feeling desire quotes thoughts feel senses see immune annihilation poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
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