I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
Algernon BlackwoodAdventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
Algernon BlackwoodThe best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
Algernon BlackwoodThe wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.
Algernon Blackwood