Quotes About Magic

Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

It is for this reason that it has been held that the magician pays in suffering for what he wins by magical means. This is true if his operation is performed in any of the lower spheres of nature; but if it starts in the Kether of Atziluth, he is drawing unmanifest force into manifestation; he is adding to the resources of the universe, and provided he keeps the forces in equilibrium, there need be no untoward reaction and no payment in suffering for the use of the magical powers.

No one can sacrifice for another. We each sacrifice ourselves, and thereby gain the power to give magical help to each other.

It is essentially the sphere of religious mysticism as distinguished from the magic and psychism of Yesod; for be it remembered, the Sephiroth of the Center Pillar of the Tree represent levels of consciousness, and the Sephiroth on the side pillars represent powers and modes of function.

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.

Magical ability is the ability to consciously use the so-called unconscious.

The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.