Starhawk Quotes - Page 3

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• Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

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  Going Away, Naked, Walks

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• Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

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  Honesty, Demand, Faces

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

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  Children, Creativity, Organization

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

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• The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

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  Ordinary, Mystery, Consciousness

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

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  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.

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  Knowing, Giving, Mind

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

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• In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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  Paganism, Witchcraft

  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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• 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

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• Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

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  Creative, Generations, Alive

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Doctrine, Way

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

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

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  Teacher, Beach, Men

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

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• It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

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  Inspiration, Clueless, Passion

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• The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

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  Tests, Return, Arise

  "The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess". Book by Starhawk, 1979.

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• 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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• To choose is also to begin.

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  Inspirational

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.112, Beacon Press

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• 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.

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  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

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  Stress, Long, Panic

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• 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

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• 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

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• Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!

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  Eye, Dark, Light

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• Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or untraviolet light, for example. We can hear only a small range of sounds. When we try to describe the otherworld of energies and spirits, we are limited not only by our bodily constraints but by the expectations, assumptions, and language patterns ingrained in us by the culture we were raised in.

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  Reality, Light, Expectations

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• The
  word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people
  wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to
  reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the
  feminine within as divine.

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  Powerful, Men, People

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Harper Collins

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