Calling Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life…

— John Welwood

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself…

— David Abram

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love;…

— Drummond Money-Coutts

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the…

— N. K. Jemisin

Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern…

— John Nevil Maskelyne

Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be…

— Starhawk

In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on…

— Philippa Gregory

Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself…

— Phyllis Curott

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of…

— Michael Scott

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

— Jean Hugard

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…

— Alan Moore