Enchantment
Do not shorten the days
spent with Enchantment,
by asking questions from a restless mind.
For Heaven’s sake,
abandon yourself to her authentic magic
and leave earthly logic far behind.
Her influence will guide you
toward a mystical opportunity,
offering you a chance to be reborn.
As the universe extends to you
a brand new energy,
so that you are truly transformed.
With Enchantment what should go wrong
instead often goes right,
and life’s path seems clearer to you.
Your burdens seem lighter
you are filled with faith
as your purpose comes into view.
Enchantment visits most often
with those selfless souls
who give of themselves constantly.
Because their inner bliss
acts like a beacon
Enchantment stops by frequently.
Enchantment’s company is costly,
for to keep her,
you must surrender ego’s space.
Then immersed in her awesome power
you will live your life,
under the influence of grace.
— J. Perry Alldredge
“Blessings are the things we take for granted.
Each holiday we notice what we see.
<em>Most know the Earth is utterly enchanted
Yet walk through life and love mechanically.
Valuing one’s gifts takes resolution
After days and nights of fantasy.</em>
Love brings the sweet relief of absolution,
Enveloping our hesitance in need.
No touch inspires so swift a revolution,
Transforming all the hieroglyphs we read.
In your love is the charity of spring,
Nor self-obsessed nor blinded by some creed,
Embracing the grey dawns that blessings bring.”
— Cornelius Lyons
“Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.” -– Ben Okri
“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart” — Washington Irving
“Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star… It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person.” — Henry Louis Mencken
“All these things have you said of beauty.
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes
and a song you hear though you shut your ears…
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us.
As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.” — Thomas Moore
“Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique in yourself. It’s the only space.” — Ben Okri
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