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The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the universe, without which there could be no freedom.

— Starhawk The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

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When we practice magic we are always making connections, moving energy, identifying with other forms of being.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts — Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979)

Spirituality and ritual are not something removed from the world, but are deeply embedded in it.

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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