Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. Starhawk More Quotes by Starhawk More Quotes From Starhawk Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy. Starhawk panic stress long 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. Starhawk paganism males names 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. Starhawk light expectations reality At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing. Starhawk justice-for-all liberty believe Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. Starhawk creativity organization children Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict. Starhawk justice trying needs 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. Starhawk inspirational-love falling-in-love stars 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. Starhawk feminist identity age In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. Starhawk sacrifice self culture Only poetry can address grief. Starhawk addresses poetry grief 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 sacrifice mother sky Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself. Starhawk demand honesty faces The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left. Starhawk environment nature healing Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war. Starhawk democracy war country Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path. Starhawk psychics path spiritual Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results. Starhawk mad crazy inspirational There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power. Starhawk kind creative two The Starhawk powerful men people 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. Starhawk hierarchy holiness sacred 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. Starhawk magic energy essence
