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Sexuality is a sacrament.
To choose is also to begin.
Only poetry can address grief.
Where there's fear, there is power.
The antidote to climate change is community.
Love is the glue that holds the world together.
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.
Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.
What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.
To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.
Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.
She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.
Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.
For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.
Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.
Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.
Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
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 the risk to speak it.
Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.
Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.
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 all her magnificent diversity.
I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.
Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.