Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 21, 2026 08:28 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”― Carlos Castaneda

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 22, 2026 07:40 PM by Magical Realist.)

In the remote and obscure nooks and crannies of libraries and bookshops all over the world lives are quietly being changed forever.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 22, 2026 09:44 PM by Magical Realist.)

“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”― Sam Harris

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 23, 2026 10:05 PM by Magical Realist.)

So rare and precious is simple unbridled joy in this day and age that it doesn't even matter whether it happens in you or in someone else. Cherish the miracle that it still happens at all!

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 25, 2026 03:20 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight to pull back the veil.” ~ Adrienne Maree Brown

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 29, 2026 01:23 PM by Magical Realist.)

"As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough."---"Waking Life"

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 4, 2026 09:49 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.”― Mickey Spillane

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 5, 2026 10:02 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”― Mark Twain

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**Magical Realist** · Aug 11, 2026 04:12 AM

“I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty... or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.”~ Henry Miller

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 11, 2026 03:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi