Gabriel Brunsdon > Quotes

“When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.
... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“...for the purity of first light is bliss
and surely the whole point of faith
is just in this: -

Not that we believe
but that we ask of He
to have faith in us.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Light and Darkness are never balanced. Nor Good and Evil. One cannot balance a something with a nothing.

The mystery behind the disruptive forces of chaos and evility is that these particulars cannot even commit to themselves - they are their own undoing - and the foulness that would corrupt, corrupts itself.

Those who align with evility invite their own destruction. Our crusade, as caretakers of the Spirit, the One Spirit, is to remain indifferent to the theatre of destruction, and be true to the permanency of all that is good.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“May Wisdom’s light bespoke my mind,
May Grace’s charity provoke my care;
May Heaven’s bounty sustain my soul;
May Godly Reason make calm myself.”

Prayer of St Francis - Azlander/Second Chances”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.

Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk and sing - though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side, past the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Some things are so natural they are effortless ... and loving is one of them.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Thoughts alone are potent writs of becoming.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that is undeniable. As intoxicating as the musk of romance and as enlightening as the whispers of hidden wisdom, magic can take you back into the very realm of your childhood ... and leave you there.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“There are faerie lights in Faerie - not the tiny paper lanterns that you might see strung up high upon a tree, and not the fat neon fireflies that sprinkle the forests at night - no, these lights are actually the beings themselves, visible as just a pinpoint of light, like stars on the sky, the etheric beings grace our world with fleeting sparks of brilliant radiance.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast, to choose well, to discriminate.”

“They are far from the 'automata' of the Universe some think them to be. They dance the starry path and are sharpening their knowledge with every orbit of each positive thought travelled.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“The science of the spirit and its relationship to the body in which it indwells is a complex conundrum. Life is not what it appears to be. Life is wholesome, and this unison of synergistic amalgamations persuade the common view that one thing is the other. But one thing is many things - at the one time - and this simple truth goes to the essence of all life with its manifold complexities.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that is undeniable. As intoxicating as the musk of romance and as enlightening as the whispers of hidden wisdom, magic can take you back into the very realm of your childhood … and leave you there.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Cancer is the weed of the Garden”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“Sometimes when deep magic is before you, it can be taken as something quite ordinary. Only when looking back does one question what had just taken place, and make note that it had been queer or unusual. The deeper a magic is, the more normal it can appear.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“When you hear a truth you never forget it. It is an immortal gift. When you hold a truth it changes you from the inside out. And when you think of that truth, you become a little bolder and brighter every time.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“~ Truth is the nucleus to which all philosophies circulate. ~”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“Truth is the nucleus to which all philosophies circulate.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon

“Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature

“Everyone lied about the dinosaurs in the museums: to date they have misled us, or possibly they just do not know … but there you will find, in the corridors, or with loose bones collected - or assembled - remnants of dragons.

Yes, many of them breathed fire and flew the skies, dragons were everywhere, and now, hidden in plain sight: those which we now call dinosaurs.

Fossils, reptiles, serpents, exotic configurations, archived, displayed: a tangle of spine without the dressing, and, without the truth.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER - Finding Self: Second Guesses

“The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature