Starhawk Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.

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  Real, Animal, Expression

• Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

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  Risk, Principles, Ethics

• To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.

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  Names, Paganism, Males

• Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.

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  Community, Joy, Risk

• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

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  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

• 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.

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  Holiness, Hierarchy, Sacred

  "The Fifth Sacred Thing". Book by Starhawk, 1993.

• Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.

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  Integrity, Mean, Self

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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