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• "You and I are one"
-- Geo Takoma, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Power Yoga (1999)
Variations and Incantations:
• Om mani padme cow
-- Stephen Levine, A Gradual Awakening (1989)
• Om mani padme hung
• Om mani padme om
-- L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth (1982)
• Om Mani Pedmé Hung
"Let everything dissolve into that purring stream, that songlike repetitive
sound of Great Compassion's mantra. Om Mani Pedmé Hung." -- Lama
Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within (1997)
• Om mani peme hum
In Literature:
• "On the Mountain [of the Five Elements], inscribed in gold, are the magic
words: om mani padme hum." -- Peter Schat, "Monkey Subdues the White
Bone Demon," The Tone Clock (1984)
Om Yee Pesh
(see also om)
Mystique: The magic phrase om yee pesh is meant to sound like a sacred
Hindu mantra.
In Literature:
• "Would the magic words be . . . Om -yee -Pesh?" -- Tony Abbott, The
Magic Escapes (2002)
Once Upon a Time
Those beautiful, magical words that transported me far, far away . . .
-- Bettyclare Moffatt, An Authentic Woman (1999)
Mystique: "Once upon a time -- what a magical phrase."15 These are "the
magic words that open the floodgates of a child's imagination."16 And
child-like imagination is ageless. "As all good magic begins with the magi
15 Margaret Lucke, Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories (1999)
16 Dale Carnegie, The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking (1990)