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“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-��
You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?�� I gasp in mock outrage.
For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Got your text,�� he said when I climbed out. “How much did it hurt?��
“Not at all,�� I said. “Apparently, I can’t get a tattoo because I’m a witch.��
“I could have told them-�� He stopped. “Oh, you said witch.��
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― Kelley Armstrong, The Gathering

“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”
― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom

“The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.”
― Zeena Schreck

“Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley”
― Kelley Armstrong

“Money, sex, human love, various form of entertainment... liquor or drugs... like poisoned honey, may be sweet at first taste but bring disappointment, boredom or misery in the end.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda

“Glaubst du eigentlich an Seelenverwandtschaft?", fragt sie mich.
Ich zucke mit den Schultern. "Na ja��" Einem Menschen wie mir, ohne jegliche Seelenverwandten, ist so ein Konzept ziemlich suspekt.
"Ich schon", gesteht Maya. "Aber nicht nur auf romantische Art und Weise, sondern allgemein. Ich glaub, wir alle haben so ein Dutzend Seelenverwandte, mit denen es einfach klickt, weißt du, was ich meine?"
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― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“Nein, aber ehrlich jetzt, ich hab keine Ahnung, wieso diese Leute Anime so hassen. Meine Kunstlehrerin war auch so, eigentlich voll lieb, aber wehe, du malst irgendwas, was sie an Anime erinnert."
"Weil alles, was kindisch und weiblich wirkt, in unserer Gesellschaft gern abgewertet wird. Vor allem, wenn es nichteuropäisch ist«, erklärt Tariq, als hätte er das schon hundertmal wiederholt. »Würde Maya jetzt sagen."
"Wollte grad sagen, klingt typisch nach ihr. Aber stimmt doch! Immer, wenn etwas weniger maskulin wirkt �� was immer die sich darunter vorstellen ��, wird es sofort weniger ernst genommen. Außer man ist ein weißer Typ und heißt Andy Warhol ��”
― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“ich könnte es wie Ibrahim machen und die absurdesten Lügen über mich erzählen. Ich könnte sagen: »Eigentlich bin ich 40, aber ich habe mein Gesicht von einem plastischen Chirurgen verjüngen lassen. Ich arbeite nämlich für die pakistanische Regierung als Geheimagent und suche in Wien nach dem Stützpunkt der Illuminati.« Oder ich könnte mir ein Beispiel an Maya nehmen und mich mit den Leuten sozialisieren, ihnen Fragen stellen�� ich könnte versuchen, mehr als nur ein lächelndes Gesicht in der Menge zu sein.
Aber ich bin nicht Ibrahim.
Und ich bin auch nicht Maya.
Also nicke ich nur und halte still wie der Statist, der ich in Wirklichkeit nun mal bin.”
― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“Hm?" Sie runzelt die Stirn. "Ein was? Ein Stativ?"
"Was hat er gesagt?", fragt Hama durchs Handy. "Ob er ein Dativ ist? Dem Tariq, dem Tariq, was redest du da?"
"Sei still" sagt Maya zu ihrer Freundin und wirft mir dann einen verwirrten Blick zu. "Wie meinst du das?"
Ich hab das Gefühl, jede Eigenschaft, die man mir als Mensch zuschreibt, dient eher anderen Menschen als mir. Ich fühl mich halt nie angekommen, egal wo ich bin. Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie ich das meine, ich bin einfach verdammt müde.”
― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“Maya hebt die Augenbrauen. "Uff."
"Ja, Mann. Uff."
"Ich bin kein Mann.”
― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“Ibrahim findet es einfach, dieses Erbe von sich zu weisen. Er kann sagen: Das hier will ich nicht. Aber das bringt weder ihm noch unseren Eltern Frieden. Maya findet es einfach, den vorgegebenen Weg zu gehen. Sie weiß, wie man Kompromisse schließt. Und trotzdem ergrauen ihre Haare, wo sie doch noch keine neunzehn ist. Aber wo ich stehe, das weiß ich nicht. Wieder in den Zwischenräumen, denke ich.”
― Mehwish Sohail, Like water in your hands

“The English word 'illusion' is almost always used as a translation for the Eastern word 'maya'.

Ordinarily, the word 'illusion' means unreal, but that is not its true meaning. It comes from a Latin root, ludere, which means to play.'Illusion' simply means a play, and that is the real meaning of maya.

Maya does not mean illusory; it simply means playful: God is playing with Himself. Of course, He was nobody except Himself, so He is playing a hide-and-seek with Himself. He hides one of His hands and tries to find it with another hand, knowing all the time where it is.”
― Osho

“I find spirituality transcends the illusion of separation, dissolving the threshold of boundaries that divide us all”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“In the realm of Maya's veil,
Where illusions dance and sway,
Ram and Krishna, wise and true,
Saw through the world's ephemeral hue.
Allah, the All-Merciful, proclaimed,
"This mortal stage, a fleeting game,
Where egos strut and passions flare,
A testing ground, a soul's repair."
Muhammad, the Prophet of Light,
Expounded on the material plight,
A transient realm, a fragile guise,
Where true treasures lie beyond the skies.
Oh, heed their words, their wisdom deep,
And seek the essence, the soul to keep,
For in the depths of spirit's embrace,
Lies true reality, time's endless chase.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“6. In the holy instant nothing happens that has not always been. ²Only the veil that has been drawn across reality is lifted. ³Nothing has changed. ⁴Yet the awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside. ⁵No one who has not yet experienced the lifting of the veil, and felt himself drawn irresistibly into the light behind it, can have faith in love without fear.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course In Miracles - Combined Volume - I, Text; Ii, Workbook For Students; Iii, Manual For Teachers

“You don't play this game, Asha. It plays you.”
― Triona Campbell, A Game of Life or Death

“What is the nature of this confusing way station between birth and (usually) death accompanied by obliteration of identity we call home?

Planet, plane, simulation, hallucination, hell, heaven on
earth �� The hypotheses as to this realm’s true character are as many as there are bored conspiracy theorists tapping away on crusty laptops in their parents�� basements.

But what if the childishly simple answer to our
conundrum is given away in this aphorism popularized in ‘Row Row Row Your Boat��: ‘Life is but a dream��?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Are we truly awake while experiencing the tangible world around us? Or are we adrift in a dream flux of illusions, our senses hoodwinking us at every turn?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The boundary between dreams and reality gets muddy
indeed when we consider the nature of our perceptions. Our senses, those windows to the world, are far from perfect instruments that are extremely susceptible to manipulation and misinterpretation. What we perceive as unquestionably solid and real could be nothing more than smoke and mirrors, projections of our own psyches.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The very act of doubting our reality indicates a flicker of suspicion, a seed of uncertainty germinating in our subconscious. Perhaps this nagging sense of unease, this wondering if something isn’t altogether as it should be, is a clue, a whisper from the wellspring of our being that there’s more to this existence than meets the eye.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“What if the world we inhabit—with all its confounding
complexities and contradictions—is nothing more than an elaborate stage set, a grand illusion orchestrated by a poorly understood force? If this were true, how could we possibly know for certain? What signs or signals might betray the actual nature of our world and our place in it?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If our senses can so easily deceive us, how can we be confident in our understanding of anything, even our own physical existence?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“For anyone desiring to go beyond this world’s illusory limits, the most important thing is to avoid accepting anything anyone (including yours truly) asserts as ‘fact�� without personally testing it with an open mind �� and heart.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“This world is nothing more or less than an intricate dance of energy, a sea of swirling possibilities where everything is constantly in flux.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The observer effect puts our everyday perceptions and assumptions in a blender. It dictates—if we’re to be honest with ourselves, sober in our thinking, and not reactionary in our emotions—that the world we see is NOT the ultimate reality, but merely a projection of it.

From this perspective the manifest world is revealed as what Hindu mystics referred to as maya, illusion, the imaginal outpourings of minds—like children naturally playing in magical constructs that seem eminently real—simply doing what minds do.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“As we learn to appreciate the waltz of shadows on the walls of Plato’s cave, we begin to grasp that the solid ‘objects�� we think of as ourselves are merely illusions moving through a greater illusion.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality