Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 11; this makes reference to William Blake's Auguries of Innocence: "To see the world in a grain of sand…"
“A grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.”
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 131
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