And but one word with one of us? couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
There seems little point in practicing magic unless you want to do at least a few extraordinary things with this incarnation.
-Peter J Carroll, The Octavo
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
- Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
-Peter J Caroll, Psybermagick
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Behind the clock back there you know At the four winds bar
- Blue Öyster Cult, Astronomy
Offering's a complicated business.
- Jake Stratton-Kent
Another related point is that theological eclecticism to the tune of replacing this structure with pagan deities so it appeals to personal taste does the ritualist no favours as it undermines their ability to leverage a power dynamic that is better understood and has been employed countless times.
- Julio Cesar Ody, Magister Officiorum
Only fluffy bunnies need apply.
- Jake Stratton-Kent
Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t then.
- Ursula K. le Guin
...the practioners of magic have always been syncretists, experimenting intraculturally and sticking with what worked.
- Michael M. Hughes, Magic for the Resistance #MagicResistance
Bakery and metallurgy are just different applications of alchemy, and all three are closer together in practice and mystery than most people might expect.
