Starhawk Quotes

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• Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
• Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.
• If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its…
• Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.
• Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.
• Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
• Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
• Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
• What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take…
• In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through…
• What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy,…
• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been…
• Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is…
• The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
• In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor…
• Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science…
• Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
• The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our…
• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based…
• The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in…

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