Magickal Studies Quotes

“When you’re outnumbered by trees your perspective shifts.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“There is nothing more powerful than a witch who knows how to contain her power.
Standing comfortably within its mystery
and allure.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“Our deepest fear is NOT that we are incompetent women. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond physical measure.
It is our radiated spiritual strength
that most frightens us…
And empowers us!”
― Dacha Avelin

“You don’t have to wander around in silk robes burning sage with crystals tied to your head to find the power within.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Most people do not live from a deep place within themselves, but instead float around on the waves at the surface of the ocean of life. The magickian dives deep into the ocean, swimming below the surface commotion, and traveling deeper and deeper into the stillness, until he or she reaches the bottom, the ground of his or her being. In your ultimate truth, you are one with this stillness.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“We humans are a strange mixture of dirt and divinity.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“Just as it was not necessary for Beethoven to know the science of the physical manufacture of the instruments in his orchestra in order for him to compose, it is not necessary for you to understand vortex based mathematics, fractal field theory, dodecahedrons, geometric solids, calculus, Fibonacci series, centripetal force, and quantum physics in order to become enlightened.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“You are a conductive being. Harness that power and transform it into something you love.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Death comes for everyone. It’s a natural part of life. We’re all on loan.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Never ask for too much. It’s sabotage.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“A house is not defined by how many rooms or stories it has. I always judge a place by what kind of energies it gives off.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Plants are the ultimate symbols of life.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“What matters is that no matter how many times we fail ourselves, we keep striving to do the things that keep us healthy and allow us to be happy.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Consider an ordinary flashlight battery. Look at or visualize one. Can you imagine if the battery only had a positive end, but not a negative end? What good would it be if it had only a positive pole, but not a negative pole? It wouldn't be functional. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't even be a battery. Most importantly of all, from a magickal point of view, it wouldn't be charged!”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Doing magick without knowing oneself is like driving a car with the emergency brake on.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Most people do not live from a deep place within themselves, but instead float around on the waves at the surface of the ocean of life. The magickian dives deep into the ocean, swimming below the surface commotion, and traveling deeper and deeper into the stillness, until he or she reaches the bottom, the ground of his or her being. In your ultimate truth, you one with this stillness.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“There is a rhythmic interchange between positive and negative. The high becomes low, the low becomes high. Everything is exchanging with its opposite to create a state of equilibrium. Each must become the other to achieve balance. The discharged must become charged, and the charged must become discharged. The universe always wants to be balanced, and in a state of equilibrium.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley