The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
“I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
“64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside. I don’t believe I exist behind myself.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving… — Selena Fox Copy Share Image
“The Old Cornwall Society decided during the 1920s to revive the custom of lighting fires along the Cornish peninsula, beginning in the… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems Like there’s a light breeze… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and… — Rachel Pollack Copy Share Image
“In truth, however, only four of the festivals celebrated by today’s followers of the seasonal wheel can definitely be attributed to the… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“I can't think, if people want gods, why not the Greek ones; they were so useful in emergencies, and such enterprising and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means there’s always something else, and… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“Paganism has no fixed creeds or dogmas, no self-proclaimed gurus or prophets, no holy books or saviours. Earth Herself is our teacher.… — Monica Sjoo Copy Share Image
“On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Live, you say, in the present; Live only in the present. But I don’t want the present, I want reality; I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
“If I talk about her like she’s a being It’s because talking about her I need to use the language of men… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.' — Gerald Gardner Copy Share Image
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“In times when the grain was harvested by hand, many traditions and superstitions grew up around this important event.” — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“Making corn dollies under the watchful eye of Mrs Darley was an absolute must for all of us living in the tiny… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
