Enchantment Saves
Sometimes, you get out of bed and you think, “I’m not gonna make it“… Laughing inside, you’re thinking …. “How many times I’ve said this?”
— Charles Bukowski
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I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. After my father died, the book that sort of saved my life was Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
— Emma Thompson
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My Nanny in South Africa was a healer. When her help was needed, she was called by smoke from fires.. She did not need to be present, she told me. She traveled to where she was needed by using the smoke that called her, she became the smoke. I vividly recall the way her body smelt. Red Cedar and earth.
She had no name. I called her Be. She was my everything. My safe place. My mother.
— Heloise Idstein
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Earth is just a stopover. A kind of game. Make it a star game. If I could give you a gift, it would be to teach you how to stay free inside that game, to find the glory inside yourself, beyond the roles and the drama, so you can dance the dance of the game of life with a little more rhythm, a little more abandon, a little more shaking those hips.
