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“Our world is so geared around productivity and maximizing every moment that the simple act of sitting is quite nearly a magickal act of its own. Stop trying to be the person out there killing it, and start reclaiming your humanity.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“HIS GRANDPARENTS’ HOME was a large old frame house on Jefferson, freshly painted white each spring. Pink and red roses were climbing the trellises against the porch. The oleanders were a glory of white in the dark glossy green of the tall hedge. He’d spent so many summers here as a child, it was like coming home. He’d never noticed the heat then.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Come, let's go to the maze with its sixteen-foot-high box hedges, designed by Perrault himself, who advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains each representing one of Aesop's fables. Water jets spurt from the animals' mouths to give the charming impression of speech between the creatures, powered by waterwheels on the Seine. Within here are the Owl and Birds, the Eagle and Fox, the Peacock and Jackdaw, the Wolf and Heron, the Tortoise and Hare, the Council of Mice.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

“Today’s your birthday,” sneered Dudley. “How come you haven’t got any cards? Haven’t you even got friends at that freak place?” “Better not let your mum hear you talking about my school,” said Harry coolly. Dudley hitched up his trousers, which were slipping down his fat bottom. “Why’re you staring at the hedge?” he said suspiciously. “I’m trying to decide what would be the best spell to set it on fire,” said Harry. Dudley stumbled backward at once, a look of panic on his fat face. “You c-can’t — Dad told you you’re not to do m-magic — he said he’ll chuck you out of the house — and you haven’t got anywhere”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“out of business school to become a writer, he’d be my dream guy (so I’ll break up with him and keep dating hedge-fund managers who bore me). If the job wasn’t across the bridge, it would be the perfect opportunity (so I’ll stay in my dead-end job and keep telling you how much I envy my friends’ careers). If she didn’t have a kid, I’d marry her. Certainly we all have our deal-breakers. But when patients repeatedly engage in this kind of analysis, sometimes I’ll say, “If the queen had balls, she’d be the king.” If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don’t recognize that “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” you may deprive yourself of joy.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Be wary of people who use terms such as timing the market, day trading, hedging your bet, and investment opportunity!”
― Chris Hogan, Retire Inspired: It's Not an Age, It's a Financial Number

“For every company, you see a gazillion pieces of information on tap: revenue growth, profit growth, debt level, margin profile, stock price movement, analysts’ views, bond ratings, Twitter commentary, shareholder information, top management résumés, conference call transcripts, annual reports, quarterly filings, media coverage, competitor profiles, shares bought or sold by senior management, receivable and inventory levels, CEO statements, Reddit threads, hedge fund ownership, and so much more. And all this is just at the company level.”
― Pulak Prasad, What I Learned About Investing from Darwin

“Gods aren’t archetypes but they’re also not not archetypes. When we begin to escape dualism, previously contradictory things begin to take form simultaneously.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Every time you light a candle, you call back to those earliest days—perhaps this is why we are still transfixed by a fire when we’re near one. Staring into the embers and watching the flames flit about, we’re transported to those earliest days of comfort, food, and community sustained by fire. We cross the hedge into an early version of who we are as a species and discover that we’re not all that different, in spite of the passage of millennia.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“When everything is conscious, it really does change your relationship with everything else. This is where we start getting into personhood and subjectivity as the default mode rather than materialist objectivity where the universe is simply filled with objects that can be manipulated. And now we’ve gotten into how time, space and consciousness are all inseparable. Whoops! This is what happens when you ask too many why questions in a witchcraft setting! You start out with some statues and a candle and the next thing you know, field theory!”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“She did not answer, but disappeared behind the hedge. I crossed the drive and followed her. She was seated on the uncomfortable rustic bench by the goldfish pond swinging her legs to and fro and biting into her apple. Above its rosy circumference her eyes regarded me sombrely and with what I could not but feel was hostility.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“For your mind to get into a state that allows for creative thought, you must feed it with … nothing. Your brain appreciates the challenge of lacking stimulus and begins inventing its own things to occupy itself.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Especially today in the information overload we experience through our phones, it’s easy to come away from our day feeling like it was jam-packed full and that we can never unplug. The reality is that no one does unplug anymore. While we’re all out there hustling to earn money, we’re also gorging our brains on the emptiness of social media, celebrities, and whatever outrage we are personally attuned to. It is costing all of us our lives because we are in a constant state of being plugged in.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Say you have a passion, any passion in the world that you do purely for the love of it—painting or drag racing or cheese making. How many times have you heard from someone, “oh, you could make money doing that? Why don’t you sell it?” How many times have you yourself followed that same line of thinking? The moment you start to take a little bit of joy in anything, you think, “How can I turn this into a job?” This line of questioning is the inescapable sickness we’re all party to, and one of the best things you can do is try to put a wall around it and protect the sanctity of your own joy with your life. To do things just for the simple pleasure of it is courageous, challenging, and a thumb in the eye of the rapacious system we live in.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Ancestors are typically thought of as the humans who came before us, our bloodline, or inherited bloodline. But consider that your life is a product of all evolution that led to you being here: the hominids, small furry mammals, reptiles, aquatic creatures, pools of algae, microbes—an uninterrupted line of reproduction and evolution that started with some amino acids in a pool of water and a strike of lightning. Even if you’re an ardent atheist, when you look through the billions of years that have led to you, made of trillions of cells and about 8.5 octillion atoms”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Your atoms have been shared with other people, magma, kangaroos, bacteria and probably a couple popes which all resulted from an exploding star.25 How anyone manages not to have their brains explode when thinking about it is probably a survival mechanism that evolved when early hominids came down from the trees, looked around at everything, and uttered those first, famous words: “holy fuuu—” before they fell over dead.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“There’s much to be said about the speed of information transfer. A generation ago, we would hear about world events via television, before that, radio and prior to that, newsprint on paper. The rapidity and volume of news stories a person can be exposed to in an hour dwarfs what the average newspaper reader could consume in a full sitting and reading the daily press. Our brains aren’t designed to handle or process this much information, something that is fairly obvious when we step back and see that our peers, parents, and even cities and nations are behaving quite a bit more erratically than even a dozen years ago. Time as a concept is becoming compressed as we witness the full spectacle of human tragedy unfold before us in real time.”
― Nathan M. Hall, Path of the Moonlit Hedge: Discovering the Magick of Animistic Witchcraft

“Fifty-five, K9-1 station EOW.”

End of Watch, I put the mic down.

“K9-1 station,” the dispatcher replies. “Thank you, Brag.”
― David Alton Hedges, Werewolf: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog

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