On the bank of a famous and unknown river sat a Wizard and his Apprentice.
They were doing what wizards usually do on the river bank: making dreams out of clouds.
“Teacher,” the Student asked the Wizard, decorating another cloud in the shape of a surprised zebra. “Everyone considers you a great Wizard, but I have never seen you use the spells that you teach me or the rituals that I practice every day.” Doesn't a Wizard need spells and rituals?
“My friend,” the Wizard answered with a smile (he had just released a huge cloud in the shape of a dragon crying from the smell of a blizzard in one look from August) “You asked a good question and the answer to it will be one Great Secret: Spells and rituals are not needed for Magic.” The purpose of spells and rituals is to help a person allow himself to Be a Wizard.
- What does it mean: to allow one to be a Wizard?
- Any permission means agreement that you are who you are. It is easy to allow yourself to be weak, imperfect, and it is infinitely difficult to allow yourself Strength and Greatness. But it's harder to allow yourself Magic.
- Why? What is it about Magic that makes accepting it so difficult?
— True (real) Magic is allowing agreement with the World around you. A person stops fighting with the World and accepts everything that comes from this World. Such a step requires a lot of strength and is very difficult. But whoever takes such a step becomes equal to the World - he is now a Wizard.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru