Daily Witchcraft

"Eighty percent of success is showing up" ~ Woody Allen Today I am in between of ideas on if I am here and like this for a reason or if life is just a mixture of randomnessness. Sasha wrote the other day: "Everybody is on this planet to fulfil a specific task and not many succeeds before they die. This means that we're almost always in the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong reason....." And then again, I do believe that the world's greatest lie is that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate . We al l learn lessons, we all love, dream, create, discover, smell, make friendships, try things, like things, discover things and yet in the end of the day fate is what you make of it. It's always two choices, always two options. At least for the way of looking at it..

Once again, life is about moments, about tearing yourself out of the usual, picking up a little peace of puzzle you find on the pavement, doing origami cranes and dreaming all the way through on hot summer nights. It's about letting go and letting be. It's about breathing, blue skies, good music, smiles, bubbles, dreams. Wait? Am I forgetting something? Love. Society. Friends. Coffee cups. Austrian mountain fairies and deep lake zombies. New encounters and old anxieties... What you waiting for? I wake up every morning. Cup of tea. Cup of sky. Handfuls of smiles. Mascara and I can touch clouds with my eyelashes (or at least thats what I was promised by the commercial). Thank you. Give me more. Always more, more intensive. Yes, please.

When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do. ~ John O'Donohue And I am finding out all those littlest things about myself. Universe is your playground -- you get what you want -- how do I define it clearly?!

Normal is: 1. Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money. 2. Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). 3. Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable. 4. Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire. 5. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. 6. Using Botox. 7. Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness. 8. Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition." 9. Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. 10. Never talking to strangers

A meeting of two; eye to eye, face to face And when you are near I will tear your eyes out a nd place them in place of mine, and you will tear my eyes out and will place them instead of yours, then I will look at you with your eyes and you will look at me with mine. (From Invitation to an Encounter, 1915)

Curioucity becomes experience. Today I found out the importance of being self aware, the coldness of the lake at 15 degrees C in the morning at 7.30 am, the importance of sharing with oneself and the others close to you and dear to you. Today I also found out the wonderful chance for meeting amazing people in the right places at just the right times.

"Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the polystyrene cup; the roots go down and the shoots go up, nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like this." ~ Robert Fulghum Today I have learned how it is important not be so much of a human being but human becoming . ..as "the human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration ......... when you love you open up your life to another" ~ J. O'Donohue

WALKING GETS TOO BORING WHEN YOU LEARN HOW TO FLY And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne, Let us possesse one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever dyes, was not mixed equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. ~ John Donne (1572-1631) "The Good-Morrow"

In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.. Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it. ~ The Great Gatsby Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted. Eve was afraid to follow her path without someone to help her, and so she wanted to share what she was feeling. Certain things cannot be shared. Nor can we be afraid of the oceans into which we plunge of our own free will; fear cramps everyone’s style. Man goes through hell in order to understand this. Love one another, but let’s not try to possess one another. ~ Paulo Coelho

Life in a cup. You get out of it as much as you pour in. It's in the end just a beautiful collage of your own thoughts and as they say -- attitude defines the altitude. Don't blame it on the rain, don't blame it on the neighbours dog or bad plumbing systems -- it's all about how you perceive things and how much you want to be excellent to others and yourself. Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ~ John B. Sheerin

BLAKE saw a treeful of angels at Peckham Rye, And his hands could lay hold on the tiger’s terrible heart. Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high, And could build the universe from one tiny part. Blake heard the asides of God, as with furrowed brow 5 He sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now, In vast infant sagacity brooding, an infant’s grace Shining serene on his simple, benignant face. Blake was mad, they say,—and Space’s Pandora-box Loosed its wonders upon him—devils, but angels indeed. 10 I, they say, am sane, but no key of mine unlocks One lock of one gate wherethrough Heaven’s glory is freed. And I stand and I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong, Out of comfort and easy dreaming evermore starting awake,— Yearning beyond all sanity for some echo of that Song 15 Of Songs that was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake! ~ "Mad Blake" William Rose Ben

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. ~ Coco Chanel There is always a choice, even if you don't want to let yourself believe so. Even then, there is a choice. And, yes, there are many unhappy people in the world, there are many horrific t hings happening around and there are also unhappy people within their own very comfortabl e lives, in their "check box" realities where they should be happy yet they are not. Yet I do believe, as Viktor Frankl said, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." In other words, be sure that you are pulling your own strings, that your life is in your own hands. The present is always fresh. There is always a new choice to make, and you are always creating your life again. No matter what has happened in the past – whatever habits you have developed,