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FLASH SALE - 40% off BOOKS until THURS, 6pm
Today, I do not have the right words for the collective.
I am old enough to know not to force it.
I have had the pleasure of having the right words come through me a few times in this life.
I was lucky to write those right words down, in magical books; books that we can choose to refer to now…
I’ve got four books available right now at youaremagicla.com:
the original, iconic 99 Visions
the quantum-superconscious The Field
meditations-for-every-occasion Dreamworld
and the dreaming-outside-the-box Be With
I know you aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover, so here’s a look at what each of these books is like on the inside…
Inside Be With…
Inside Dreamworld…
Inside The Field…
Inside 99 Visions…
These books are really special and (I think) make beautiful gifts. You won’t find them on Amazon, you won’t find them at Walmart.
All books will be shipped USPS media mail early next week.
If you miss this super-fast Flash Sale, don’t worry, I will offer other (smaller, but still helpful!) discounts over the next few weeks.
I am sorry I can’t offer international shipping at this time, but I WILL have a very special code next week for any one with an internet connection!
This is my 180th post on Substack. I LOVE writing to you on Tuesdays and offering our little talks and meditations in the paid space on Fridays.
Thanks for letting me NOT generate tons of “fresh” words today, and instead fall back on the words I’ve already written.
I look forward to mailing out your books and by next week I have no doubt we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming - where I’m brimming over with the right words once again.
Until next time,
Jess
“I have an image of how the internet (particularly social media) works - that there are all these straws filled with information and whichever straw we drink from nourishes our beliefs about the world.
Each of us has a different collection of our go-to straws, which become more enticing and powerful the more often we return to gather information from them.
The person next to us is drinking from a different combination of straws and therefore has a totally different understanding of the state of the world.”
- Jessica Snow, I’m the Wrong One…
“Learning to love the world means that you cannot be pleasantly indifferent about its future. But there is a wisdom in knowing that change has come before and, what is more, that it will keep on coming, often when you least expect it; unplanned, spontaneous, and sometimes, even just in time.”
- Lyndsey Stonebridge
“Nature is resilient, and we are part of nature. If you are losing faith in your fellow human beings, look around at the leaves and grasses, at any green thing. Long, long ago, when early life began to run out of food, nature created a miracle—a molecule that use the energy of sunlight to turn air and water into nourishment. Alchemy! We can do the seem. Take a breath in. The very air is a gift of that miracle process, and every breath out is a gift back to the green world. We are connected, always, and regeneration is inherent in life. Trust in that, and we will find our way.”
- Starhawk
"We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons."
- Terence McKenna
"When I think of the relationship between artists and society - and for me the question is always what it could be, rather than what it is - I think of the word transcendent. It is a word I never use in public, but it's the only word I can come up with to describe what I think about the role of artists. By transcendent, I mean that the artist transcends the immediate. Transcends the here and now. Transcends the madness of the world. Transcends terrorism and war."
- Howard Zinn
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the
conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
- David Whyte
“It is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
- Virginia Woolf
“If you can see a thing whole…it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives….But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed
with balance and stealth."
- Patti Smith