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“Eating well. Exercising well. Sleeping well and loving generously. All of these things slow us down and bring us stillness, revealing and enabling this wise part of ourselves.”
― Malcolm Stern, Slay Your Dragons With Compassion: Ten Ways to Thrive Even When It Feels Impossible

tags: good-life

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“Religion seeks to lift us from everyday matter towards spirit, while magic seeks rather to bring spirit down into everyday matter. While religion often reflects a 'quest for meaning', magic is more about 'sowing seeds of meaning'.”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: culture, magic, meaning, religion, spirit, spirituality

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“Magical thinking is the brain's way of handling complexity and, judging by the survival or humankind, it has done a pretty good job.”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: cognition, evolution, magic, thinking

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“Instant gratification is no more essential to magical culture than bigotry to religious culture or psychopathy to science, and yet times of magical revival do go hand in hand with a rise in individualism”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: culture, individualism, magic

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“I am relatively certain that religious faith alone doesn't prevent hallucinations because many patients try to save themselves by their faith. Observation would suggest useful social acts (charity) would come closer to preventing schizophrenia.”
― Wilson Van Dusen, The Presence of Spirits in Madness

tags: charity, madness, religion

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winning Book Group — 223 members — last activity Mar 14, 2026 10:15AM
A group for people wanting to read & discuss Award Winning books within the Science Fiction & Fantasy genres. In our monthly group reads we are curren ...more

Georgette Heyer Fans — 1056 members — last activity Mar 20, 2026 11:11PM
A group for fans of Georgette Heyer to discuss her work. Whether you are a fan of many years or someone who is just starting out reading her novels yo ...more

Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels — 2120 members — last activity 2 hours, 6 min ago
This group is for like-minded people who want to read all of the Hugo and Nebula winners and runners-up. The Hugo Awards are chosen by the fans. The ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 317606 members — last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Edelweiss & Netgalley Reviewers — 322 members — last activity 16 hours, 26 min ago
This group was created to cover both main Advanced Copy Reviewer sites. Both Edelweiss and NetGalley offer advanced copies of books in exchange for an ...more

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