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Everything Is Magic
“Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden — in all the places.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett — The Secret Garden.
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“All excessive purity lacks vitality. A constant striving for clarity and differentiation means a proportionate loss of vital intensity (because the muddy elements are excluded.) Every renewal of life needs the muddy as well as the clear.”
— Carl Jung
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Beauty, which is the main aesthetic category of art, is the mysterious key that opens the door of transcendence.”
— Katarzyna Citko
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To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable…
