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Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Energy flows in spirals. Its motion is always circular, cyclical, wavelike.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
The Censor deludes us with the belief that the pain we are in will go away if we don't name it or speak of it.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
Womanspirit Rising : A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979)
Everyone has the right to their own opinion about a ritual, and to their own aesthetics. There's generally at least one invocation in every ritual that I could personally do without.
Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)
...They would probably only get a little while, if that, but even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.
City of Refuge (2015)
The God is wild, but his is the wildness of connection, not of domination. Wildness is not the same as violence. Gentleness and tenderness do not translate into wimpiness.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
To become truly wild, we must not be sidetracked by the dramas of power-over, the seduction of addictions, or the thrill of control. We must go deeper.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
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.
Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979)
We were the ones who really knew the land and knew what grew there, and how to use it.
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.
Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)
The tide has turned!
The light will come again!
In a new dawn, in a new day,
The sun is rising!
Io! Evohe! Blessed Be!
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
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 and religion, of many ways of knowing.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. (p215)
Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising (2002)
In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess — we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
We join together to earth the power of the season and to slip between the worlds, the voices saying to every one of us, "Wake up, you are it, you are a part of the circle of the wise.
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.
Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)
Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences. (p33)
The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (2004)
The Conqueror, whose core issue is safety splits us into Conqueror and Enemy/Victim, tells us, "Don't trust!" and generates fear, paranoia, distortions of reality, and the need to annihilate enemies.
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)