Tuesday, May 6, 2014

There's Magic Abroad!

Enchantment

Enchantment is a spell that comes over us, an aura of fantasy and emotion that can settle on the heart and either disturb it or send it into rapture and reverie.”
Thomas Moore (The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life)

We all enter into enchantment at some point in our lives—some of us, many times. Take, for instance, when we fall in love; we quite simply go crazy. Suddenly the whole world is a splendid celebration of life; we're giddy and stupid. We can't sleep and can't eat; our minds are given over in totality to the object of our infatuation. A spell has been cast, and we are flies in its web.

Occasionally, we happen upon a scene so beautiful that for a time, we are transported out of our ordinary existence into a world of beauty and magic. One such occasion that I recall vividly occurred in the Arizona desert, south of Tucson; I walked out of the dinning room to a sunset that was quite simply breath-taking. I stood rooted to the spot until the very last slip of color faded from the sky. For all of that time, I was only eyes and emotion. Every vestige of personality receded into the shadows and ceased to exist.

We don't have to lose ourselves completely to experience the magic that surrounds us, but we have to be awake and aware. Sitting on my porch this morning, sunlight beams through the new green leaves of a tree in my back yard. It is as though they are lit from within. As I lift my eyes, I see this same phenomenon in all the trees within view in my neighborhood. Stage lighting that only the god of beauty could invent.

Today, allow enchantment to find you. Wake up to the lavish beauty all around you. Refresh your soul with it and give thanks.

                                                            In the Spirit,

                                                                  Jane

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