Starhawk Quotes - Page 3

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• She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

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  Paganism

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.264, Beacon Press

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

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  Stress, Long, Panic

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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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• 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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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

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  Dark, Moon, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.

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  Stars, Men, Moon

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the earth; He is the grain. She is the all encompassing sky; He is the sun, her fireball. She is the Wheel; He is the traveler. He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the Mother and Destroyer; He is all that is born and is destroyed.

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  Mother, Sacrifice, Sky

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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• [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

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  Fall, Mean, Safety

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