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3 Day quote challenge day 3

I have been nominated to participate in the 3 Day quote challenge

Rules for the Challenge:

1.) Thank the person who nominated you.

2.) Post a quote for three consecutive days (1 quote for each day).

3.) Share why this quote appeals so much to you.

4.) Nominate 3 different bloggers for each day.

I was nominated by bodyandsoulnourishmentblog, who blogs regularly beautiful and well selected poems and some quotes to reflect on: http://bodyandsoulnourishmentblog.wordpress.com

Thank you Amira for sharing with us, on WordPress, your spiritual journey and discovery of beauty.

DAY ONE QUOTE:

PHILOSOPHICAL SONNET by Saint-Germain
“Curious scrutator of all nature,
I have seen gold thick in the depths of the double mercury.
I have seized its substance and surprised its changing.
I explain by that art the soul with the womb of a mother,
Make its home, take it away, and as a kernel
Placed against a grain of wheat, under the humid pollen;
The one plant and the other vine-stock, are the bread and wine.
NOTHING was, God willing, NOTHING became something,
I doubted it, I sought that on which the universe rests,
NOTHING preserves the equilibrium and serves to sustain.
Then, with the weight of praise and of blame.
I weighed the eternal, it called my soul,
I died, I adored, I knew NOTHING more.”
–trans. Manley Palmer Hall in Sages & Seers, from original ms. in British Museum

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This is simply for me a beautiful poem. Every time I read it, there is something new I discover in it. A detour meaning. It positions nothing as the source of everything and within that strange context expose wisdom for deep contemplation.

My 3 Nominations for the 3 next days are:

Participation in this challenge is of course optional
1. https://itishabitforming.wordpress.com
2. https://unbolt.me
3. https://emotionspassion.wordpress.com

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