Paganism Quotes

• The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Collective Unconscious, Brain, Mind

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• The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

  Rajneesh

  Powerful, Rocks, Water

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Heart, Optimistic

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.65, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Inspirational, Life, And Love

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Goddess, Found

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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

  Starhawk

  Mind, Body, Wiccan

  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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• I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

  Aleister Crowley

  Daughter, Sunset, Night

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Sky

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• A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

  Zitkala-Sa

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

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

  Starhawk

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

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• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Father, Men

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• The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.

  Margot Adler

  Real, Flower, Legends

  Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.38, Penguin

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• The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

  Zitkala-Sa

  God, Sweet, Nature

  Zitkala-Sa (2014). “American Indian Stories”, p.109, Diderot Publishing

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• 'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.

  Doreen Valiente

  Spiritual, Self, Personality

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.25, The Crowood Press

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• Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

  Laurie Cabot

  Inspirational, Life, Earth

  Laurie Cabot (2013). “Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment”, p.20, Delta

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• The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

  Augustus Hare

  Good Christian, Christianity, Virtue

  "Guesses at Truth" by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, London: Macmillan, (p. 1), 1867.

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• The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, Piety

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.133, 谷月社

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• I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Deny, Pagan Gods

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• The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

  Rachel Pollack

  Two, Bird, Way

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• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• Fame is nothing but an empty name.

  Charles Churchill

  Names, Fame, Empty

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24

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