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Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.
Starhawk
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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The Goddess does not rule the world She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
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Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
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Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
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Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.
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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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All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
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If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.
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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.
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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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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.
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Where there's fear, there is power.
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
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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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We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.
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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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[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.
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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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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.
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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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What we name must answer to us we can shape it if not control it.
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