An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful when you use that word,” I warn her. “It’s like an invocation. You’ll summon it.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried… — Homer Copy Share Image
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.' ...I jot this… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“You whom my body longs for, where are you? In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow? Perhaps you hide in… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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