When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved.
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.
The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.
From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!
Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.