#magic

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home. ↗

— Barbara Hurd

#circle #dream #iris #magic #meditation

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus. Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt. ↗

— Peter J. Carroll

#commentary #magic #imagination

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things. ↗

— Malia Ann Haberman

#chase-tinker #ideas #imagination #magic #thoughts

Imagination is the true magic carpet. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#imagination #magic #true

You are the answer. All you have to do is believe. ↗

— Michael Lopez

#magical #psychological #inspirational

I think you're wrong. I think, in real life, magic happens every day," he said... ↗

— Mary Calmes

#life

Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic". ↗

— Carrie Jones

#magic #life

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life #magic #mystery #philosophy #life

and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love... ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #magic #no-denying #love