Starhawk Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Honesty, Demand, Faces

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us to envision, fight for, and create that world, a world of freedom, real justice, balance, and shared abundance, a world woven in a new design.

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  Hope, Real, Fighting

  Kristen Madden, Raven Grimassi, Starhawk (2005). “Exploring the Pagan Path: Wisdom from the Elders”, p.259, Career Press

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• The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

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  Falling In Love, Inspirational Love, Stars

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

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  Hate, Women, Compassion

  "Toward an Activist Spirituality" by Starhawk, October 2003.

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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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• Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.

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  Community, Joy, Risk

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

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  Sex, Sexuality, Sacraments

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