magic

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in such a way that it cut the ties of love between husband and wife. Why did So-and-so enjoy success in his businesses? Because he visited the right enchanter. There was a thing in the emperor that rebelled against all this flummery, for was it not a kind of infantilization of the self to give up one's power of agency and believe that such power resided outside oneself rather than within? This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical structures by themselves.

I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

Nothing Is Strange

I wish magic was more dramatic

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Because, between __eality_ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there__ a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it.

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn't be trying to go anywhere else.If you could know the perfection of time and space,You would slow each moment downTo drain every possible nuance of juice and flavor from it.When you leave this place, your body and mind and the earth which holds you, you will look back and only wish you had known the immense richness that you hurried through trying to find other better states of being.But this is the best bite.Heaven is here.Nirvana is now.As soon as you know that for sureYour life will never be the same again.In fact, in every way it seeks to get your attention. begs you to awaken to the magic right before your eyes.

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don__ contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it.

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.

For me, the most magical truth of this universe is that no magic is required.

If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.