#magi

To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another. ↗

— Barbara Kloss

#magical-world #dreams

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#books #dreams #heroes #imagination #reading

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. ↗

— Henry Adams

#nature #science #education

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introverts #magic #personality #power #strength

The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without a quite understandable terror that I discerned the pleasure I felt in the embrace of this vigorous bush whose branches gradually mingled with my limbs, my hair and my looks. When one of its flowers came apart in my mouth, I could feel myself grasping the sorcerer in my arms in my turn. He was transformed into a torrent, and I was a barge, into desert and I was smoke, into a car and I was a road, into a man and I was a woman. 'What we are doing is very wrong,' he said and was off. ↗

— Robert Desnos

#pleasure #possesssion #sorcerer #terror #vice

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#religion #spirituality #experience

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad. ↗

— Esme Raji Codell

#education

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #imagination #limits #religion #experience

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#curran #ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#imagination #spirit #faith