Paganism Quotes - Page 5

• The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

  Rajneesh

  Needs, Pagan

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• Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Energy, Idiocy, Meant To Be

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• I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Healing, Soul, Goddess

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• "Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Exercise, Thinking

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• No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them.
  There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Practice, Giving, Way

  Donald Michael Kraig (2010). “Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”, p.7, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Opposites, Practice

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

  David Mamet

  Views, Issues, Abortion

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.163, Penguin

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• When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

  Philip Carr-Gomm, Stephanie Carr-Gomm (1996). “The Druid Animal Oracle”, p.5, Connections Book Publishing

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• It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Home, Giving

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft”, p.211, OUP Oxford

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• Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

  Graham Harvey

  Numbers, Labels, Use

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• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Religious, Fashion

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

  Richard Baxter

  World, Chance, Blind

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• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

  Zeno of Elea

  Success, Inspirational Life, Garden

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• When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

  Martin Buber

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  Ovid

  Drinking, Ancient, Praise

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• Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.

  Dorothy Morrison

  Practice, Breathing, Magic

  Dorothy Morrison (2012). “Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Average, Abortion, Feminist

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

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• You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Way, Reason, Feels

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• The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Age, Ruins

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.272

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• Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Interesting, Events, Connections

  Silver RavenWolf (2011). “Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation”, p.23, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• If you have no doubt, you are not sane.

  Tage Danielsson

  Doubt, Sane, Ifs

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• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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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.

  Starhawk

  Mother, Sacrifice, Sky

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• For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

  Doreen Valiente

  Two, Pillars, Shrines

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