o 21 • "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)