Today I came across this statement by Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher and thinker:
The child’s first painful experience is not that grown-ups are stronger, but the acceptance of the bitter truth that power has no magic.

Benjamin’s words reminded me of another statement by the contemporary Italian philosopher Agamben, to the effect that:
Whatever we achieve in life through merit and effort never makes us truly happy. Only magical events can make us deeply happy. Something beyond the events of everyday life has to occur for us to be truly happy.

Reflecting on these two statements, I find myself thinking that perhaps this is why I have always found my inner peace and happiness in faith in the childlike belief that life is magical and that magical events are always possible. Again and again in my own life I have felt the possibility and power of such extraordinary and magical events.

Life can be lived joyfully and magically if we suspend the calculating mind and enter the field of life consciously but without armour, because in the end no armour in this field is as hard or powerful as the magic of life.

Aydin Areta