Daily Witchcraft

Parla Come Mangi speak the way you eat

Come, let us be friends for once; Let us make life easy on us; Let us be lovers and loved ones; The earth shall be left to no one. ~ old Sufi poem

At the first sign of indifference or lack of enthusiasm, take note! The only preventative against this disease is the realization that the soul suffers, suffers greatly, when we force it to live superficially. The soul loves all things beautiful and deep. ~ P.Coelho "Winner Stands Alone" Even if you’re doing the same thing over and over, you need to discover something new, fantastic, and unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before. ~ P.Coelho "Winner Stands Alone"

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers. Honore de Balzac

...and yet letting go is what we are struggling to do over and over again. "You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate—the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power." ~ Lolita, V. Nabokov

These days I have learned to appreaciate sunset and sunrise without going to sleep in between; I have learned to never let go of positive thoughts -- no-mater-what! I have learnt to appreciate friendships and living with this furry little thing called naivety. I have learned that between always and never is the state of sometimes...

live with no excuses and love with no regrets "What I have learned (..) is that it really does not matter one bit what the cause of your pain, aggression or general attitude problem is. Disappointing childhood? Join the queue. String of failed relationshops? You're not the only one. Awkward cultural background? Honey, I'm J ewish. Cry me a fucking river. No, it doesn't matter what got you fucked up. You might think it does, and spend decades (not to mention tens of thousands of pounds) in talking therapies of every stripe, diss ecting the ins-and-outs of your inner child and why your life and relationships are so fucked up. But in the end, why bother? Why not just change today, and get un-fucked-up already? Or, to give the concept a little more historical and philosophical gravitas, there is a well-known saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln that people are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be. It is the truth. You, too, are not incapable of happines...

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ~ M. Buber Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. "Power and Love" (1926)

Today I rediscover the beauty of choosing, of making big things into little things and otherwise. It's about how much you challenge yourself, how much you learn and let yourself grow. Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better! If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise, don't you think?!

“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I’d seen destroyed. I’d swum through mink coats on my parents’ bed while they hosted downstairs, I’d lost the only person with whom I could have spent my only life, I’d left behind a thousand tonnes of marble from which I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself, I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering…” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

well,” said pooh, “what i like best — ” and then he had to stop and think. because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.

I want people to know that almost everything that concerns them in their daily lives is of no consequence whatsoever. Nothing and nobody is really important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race ‘round the supermarket and steal Mars bars and, y’know, kiss kittens and sit on the back of bread vans. Whatever makes people happy they should just do it, ‘cos time is a mere scratch and life is nothing. ~ Morrissey