“Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.”

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee’s hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?

The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.

The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.

To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.

A nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.