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• 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.

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  Truth, Risk, Together

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• 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.

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  Eye, Light, Hands

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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

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  Responsibility, Practice, Magic

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• All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

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  Teacher, Love Is, Law

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

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• Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

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  Opportunity, Transformation, Ritual

  "Infinity in Your Hand : A Guide for the Spiritually Curious". Book by William H. Houff, p. 151, 1994.

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• Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

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  Dark, Light, Organization

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

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  Vision, Nasty, Humans

  Starhawk (2011). “The Fifth Sacred Thing”, p.328, Bantam

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• The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.

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  Doe, World, Goddess

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Magic, Causes

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

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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

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  Sex, Sexuality, Sacraments

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• 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.

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  Essence, Magic, Energy

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

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• Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

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  Despair, Would Be, World

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• 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

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• Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

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  War, Expression, Punishment

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

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  Mother, Blessed, Heart

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

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• Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

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  Decision, Bears, Consequence

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

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  Stars, Book, Teaching

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• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

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  Wise, Political, Witch

  "The Burning Times". 1990.

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• 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.

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  Justice, Trying, Needs

  "Toward an Activist Spirituality". Reclaiming Quarterly, October 2003.

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• It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.

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  Uplifting, Wise, Knowing

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• Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

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  Mind, Body, Paganism

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.

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  Goal, Different, World

  Bodhi Tree Bookstore presentation, December 1999.

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• The antidote to climate change is community.

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  Community, Climate, Climate Change

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• 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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  Uplifting, Women, Reality

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

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• A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.

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  Spiritual, Teaching, Inspiration

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.46, Beacon Press

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