Cold Springs / Camp Sherman

Cold Springs / Camp Sherman
Winter Soltice 2013

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Magic

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 

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

“I use the word mystery,rather than magic.
I love magic.  Something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble.  MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred.
Page 33 coming home to my self”
Marion Woodman

“Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.”
Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth  

“Unicorns and rainbows exist because we want them to.”
Truth Devour, Wantin 


“Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I didn't know what, or why, or how. But I believed.”
Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic 


“That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two  
 
 



“Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.”
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs 

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
Terence McKenna

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W.B. Yeats

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone  

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.”
Charles de Lint 


“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
Marilyn Manson 


“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 


“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden 


“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
Terence McKenna

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32) 

“That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”
Charles de Lint



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