The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Starhawk More Quotes by Starhawk More Quotes From Starhawk 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. Starhawk honestypracticecommitment To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up. Starhawk unjust-societybeerintegrity At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’ Starhawk occupationessencefaces My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. Starhawk spiritualityfeminismchallenges In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth. Starhawk witchcraftpaganism Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive. Starhawk designlove-ischildren Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war. Starhawk punishmentexpressionwar From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell for what you don't want - that the deep aspects of our minds are unclear on the concept of 'no.' If you tell your dog, 'Rover, I can't take you for a walk,' Rover hears 'Walk!' and runs for the door. If we say 'nonviolence,' we are still thinking in terms of violence. Starhawk dogrunningthinking 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. Starhawk starsmoonmen Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft. Starhawk love-lifeethicsform 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. Starhawk landhealingorder Love is the glue that holds the world together. Starhawk gluetogetherlove-is If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions. Starhawk definitionsifsculture All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries. Starhawk lawlove-isteacher Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. Starhawk crystalspatternsculture What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it. Starhawk shapesnamesanswers Sexuality is a sacrament. Starhawk sacramentssexualitysex Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created. Starhawk actorsstoriesworld Where there's fear, there is power. Starhawk ...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through. Starhawk
