Mark

“As kids, we think ourselves so clever, but as parents, we simply sit back and watch with amusement as the children mimic what we did as children, and we know every single trick.”
― Shayne Silvers, Silver Tongue

“The fox has a long history of magic and cunning associated with it. Because it is a creature of the night, it is often imbued with supernatural power. It is often most visible at the times of dawn and dusk, the “Between Times” when the magical world and the world in which we live intersect. It lives at the edges of forests and open land-the border areas. Because it is an animal of the “Between Times and Places,” it can be a guide to enter the Faerie Realm. Its appearance at such times can often signal that the Faerie Realm is about to open for the individual. In the Orient, it was believed that faxes were capable of assuming human form. In ancient Chinese lore, the fox acquires the faculty to become human at the age of 50, and on its hundredth birthday, it becomes either a wizard or a beautiful maiden who will ultimately destroy any man unlucky enough to fall in love with her. “There are several American Indian tribes that tell tales of hunters who accidentally discovered their wives were foxes.”52 This is very symbolic of the idea of magic being born within the feminine energies, and that unless a male can recognize the magic of the feminine-in himself or others-and learn to use it to shapeshift his own life, it will ultimately lead to destruction.”
― Ted Andrews, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small

“The optimal mental state for training in is called “the flow state”, most famously defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his 1988 book Flow. Buy it, read it, you won’t regret it. This book made me realise that the thing I was really trying to teach most of my students was how to develop an autotelic personality, which means a person who is able to set their own goals.”
― Guy Windsor, The Seven Principles of Mastery

“Eat first, talk later. You don’t disrespect a good piece of pie.”
― Gail Z. Martin, Open Season (Spells, Salt, & Steel, #2)