"To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts."

“In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak”

“Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.”

“But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.”

Source : Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.”

“Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.”

Source : "George Zimmerman accuses Obama of inflaming racial tensions" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.

“I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me”

“Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.”

“The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.”

Source : Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune