The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life

“I am a free spirit reduced to the appearance of this little body,”

Effort is like struggling to get out of quicksand—it only pulls you in deeper.

If you hang too many coats on a rack, you cannot see the rack anymore. This is what mortals have done with their bodies, Merlin said. It is impossible to see the truth of the human body—that it is a river of awareness flowing through time—because so

you will immediately sense an awareness that is alert, awake, uninvolved, silent, yet intensely alive.

The food you eat was converted from starlight, and as you eat it you create a body that has the same source.

The wizard inside each of us could also be called the witness. The role of the witness is not to interfere in the changing world, but to see and understand. The witness doesn’t rest—it remains awake even when you are dreaming or in a dreamless sleep. It therefore does not need to see through your eyes, which seems quite magical. Isn’t the eye the e

Whenever a word is backed up by intention, it enters the field of awareness as a message or a request. The universe is being put on notice that you have a certain desire. Nothing more is required to make desires come true than this, because the computing ability of universal awareness is infinite. All messages are heard and acted upon.

If you didn’t know what a book was, you’d say it was simply a collection of marks in some strange code, when in fact it is a channel for one awareness to communicate with another.

much weight of the past has accumulated on it.