“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.” FirstsLongDreamPracticeMagicConditionsAwarenessBuddhismHigherThickStopping Author:Frederick Lenz
“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.” PeopleWarDesireBrainPracticeMagicRationalPrimitiveSophisticatedStemImperativesCoexistLove And War Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.” HoursPracticeMagicFrontsReadyMirrorsTricksMagic Tricks Author:Steve Martin
“Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.” YearsBeautifulAsksAnswersRacePracticeMagicPreparedAsk MeDragWands Author:RuPaul
“The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.” WorldCausesNaturalPracticeMagicEffectsMaterialsConsequenceCoreExecutionCause And EffectMaterial World Author:Zeena Schreck
“I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.” BookUsedCoursesPracticeMagicFeetNew YorkStoresEncountersUnexpectedShelvesCrowdedUsed Books Author:Saul Williams
“Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.” WellsYoungUsedInterestPracticeMagicMinesMagician Author:Woody Allen
“Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.” GivingReasonActionSpiritPracticeFourMagicDivineParticularElementsResponsibleJustifyImmortalMysticismProvidenceDivine ProvidenceFour Elements Author:Franz Bardon
“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsHumansKindMayChildrenHas BeensReasonPhilosophyTodayLastsLanguageParentAnimalExistenceSituationPracticeMagicInfluenceLandBalanceMen And WomenYears AgoInstitutionsBoundariesParadiseNo ReasonPrimitiveAltruismChildren And ParentsClimaxDissolvingPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna