As long as one does not quit, one has succeeded. It does not matter what you are trying to achieve at all. As long as one does not give up, what seems like failure is merely success in disguise.

When I seek God, or a better world, or greater understanding, trying to understand the hidden laws of the universe or attempt to lose weight.. as long as I do not give up, success is guaranteed.

This is the same idea I once expressed as "The question is the answer". One only needs to stay with the question until it reveals itself as the answer. If one never questions, what answer can be found?

It is a subtle kind of power. One we all have. One many are quite unaware of. If they were aware, they would not ever give up on their dreams.

That, above all else is why one should try to achieve the impossible. Because it is only impossible until someone persist with the question long enough to do it.

They turn impossibility into inevitability. Alchemy, in a sense. Turning lead into gold.

Understood this way, what stands between a man and "omnipotence" is time alone. Given enough time, every problem will be solved, every challenge conquered. So to be omnipotent now, one has only to understand ones timeless nature. In the timeless, the temporal distance between question and answer does not exist. So understanding the timeless nature of time even while existing within it, one begins to touch the infinite.

And this post? It is a result of me persisting in the question. If I am determined to understand magic, I will understand it. And when I do, it will no longer be magic but a way of being in the world that aligns with the outcomes I desire. Laws once unseen, now seen. Because magic is only a mystery until it is understood.