I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It’s usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It’s so much easier to see everyone else’s.
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Damien Echols is an American artist, author, teacher, and practitioner of magick. At eighteen, he was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to Death Row. He was eventually released after almost eighteen years, and he writes and speaks on the spiritual practices that helped sustain him during his incarceration.
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Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it.
Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly in prison, but it doesn’t. The truth is that time doesn’t pass at all. It’s an eternal vacuum, and each moment is meaningless because it has no context.
I have two definitions for the word ‘magick.’The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential—seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.
I had recently discovered masturbation and applied myself to the act with the utmost diligence. I couldn’t seem to stop myself, and afterward would pray to God, begging his forgiveness. I had no idea that it was normal to have such urges, for no one ever explained such things to me.
If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.
You never know how much you need music until you don’t have it.
Most people who spew hatred aren’t very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
I’ve learned over the years that sooner or later a person’s physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.
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