Charles de Lint
Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.
“Often,” he says, “what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.”
The thing is ... nothing’s as easy as we'd like it to be. ... And the real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.
Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...
You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are real and some things aren’t. There’s a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.
He had seen trances before — wise men far in the east, who could feign death; a herbwife as she bent over her patient, searching for invisible hurts.
But this was different. He could sense something here, within the circle cast by the light of the fire. A presence.
Presences...
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.