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
“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
“We too can begin a new life, one that brings satisfaction and enrichment, whether this is by singing, dancing, running through the… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“I nodded, appreciating the wisdom of her words.‘Yellow is the colour of early spring,’ she said, ‘just look at your garden!’ She… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightly And goes away, always very lightly. And I don’t know what I think… — Alberto Caeiro 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
“Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all… — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial. — Dorothy Morrison 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
“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 saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys, plains, That there are trees, flowers,… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Legend has it that during the festival of Eostre, all fires had to be extinguished in the Goddess’ honour and could only… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“[Langdon] thought about all the religions of the world, about their shared origins, about the earliest gods of the sun, moon, sea… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“So now, as the Maiden form of the Goddess whispers to us of hope and new beginnings at the festival of Imbolc,… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“Everyone looks for the first snowdrop as proof that our part of the earth is once more turning towards the sun, but… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can… — William James Copy Share Image
“Mrs Darley, I noticed, always had her corn dolly amidst an arrangement of cornflowers and poppies (albeit they were artificial!). The corn,… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“I would like to invite you to savour every moment of this experiential journey. Feel the energies of the earth, listen to… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die:… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“Let’s only care about the place where we are. There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there’s someone… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I have since learned that although the festival of Imbolc was far less romantic and far more practical to our Celtic ancestors… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“One day when God fell asleep And the Holy Ghost went off flying, He got into a box of miracles and stole… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image