Starhawk Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• 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.

  Starhawk

  Dream, Reality, Sight

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

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  Community, Magic, Technique

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

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  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

  Starhawk

  Responsibility, Practice, Magic

• If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

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  Art, Winning, Psychology

• 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; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is...the ultimate adventure.

  Starhawk

  Dream, Real, Adventure

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so because I say it is so.' For words to take on such force, you must be deeply and completely convinced that it is identified with truth as you know it. To a person who practices honesty and keeps commitments, 'As I will, so mote it be' is not just a pretty phrase; it is a statement of fact.

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  Honesty, Commitment, Practice

• 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.

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  People, Magic, Sound

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.39, Beacon Press

• 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, which is the essence of magic.

  Starhawk

  Essence, Magic, Energy

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• 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.

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  Dream, Art, Magic

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.102, Beacon Press

• We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.

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  Healing, Order, Land

  Starhawk (2013). “The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature”, p.11, Harper Collins

• Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.

  Starhawk

  Commitment, Magic, Causes

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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