Gabriel Brunsdon Quotes & Sayings

When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real. — Gabriel Brunsdon

For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth. — Gabriel Brunsdon

For the purity of first light is bliss
and surely the whole point of faith
is just in this: -
Not that we believe
but that we ask of He
to have faith in us. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast, to choose well, to discriminate."
"They are far from the 'automata' of the Universe some think them to be. They dance the starry path and are sharpening their knowledge with every orbit of each positive thought travelled. — Gabriel Brunsdon

It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.
Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk and sing - though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side, past the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax. — Gabriel Brunsdon

The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that is undeniable. As intoxicating as the musk of romance and as enlightening as the whispers of hidden wisdom, magic can take you back into the very realm of your childhood ... and leave you there. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity. — Gabriel Brunsdon

The science of the spirit and its relationship to the body in which it indwells is a complex conundrum. Life is not what it appears to be. Life is wholesome, and this unison of synergistic amalgamations persuade the common view that one thing is the other. But one thing is many things - at the one time - and this simple truth goes to the essence of all life with its manifold complexities. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Some things are so natural they are effortless ... and loving is one of them. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth. — Gabriel Brunsdon

The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World. — Gabriel Brunsdon

The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Thoughts alone are potent writs of becoming. — Gabriel Brunsdon

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.
... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result. — Gabriel Brunsdon

There are faerie lights in Faerie - not the tiny paper lanterns that you might see strung up high upon a tree, and not the fat neon fireflies that sprinkle the forests at night - no, these lights are actually the beings themselves, visible as just a pinpoint of light, like stars on the sky, the etheric beings grace our world with fleeting sparks of brilliant radiance. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Sometimes when deep magic is before you, it can be taken as something quite ordinary. Only when looking back does one question what had just taken place, and make note that it had been queer or unusual. The deeper a magic is, the more normal it can appear. — Gabriel Brunsdon

When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised! — Gabriel Brunsdon