Quote

Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

Starhawk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
Feminist
Journalist
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
Like
Seen
Desert
Barest
Water
Rise
Hint
Faith
Brings
Emerges
Sense
Actions
Renewed
Action
Rain
Bloom
Power
Flower
Hints
May
Magic
Persistent
Life
Wind
Stubborn

More quotes by Starhawk

Image
The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.
Starhawk
Image
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
Image
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Starhawk
Image
Love is the glue that holds the world together.
Starhawk
Image
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.
Starhawk
Image
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
Image
The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful as men, to know the feminine within as divine.
Starhawk
Image
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
Image
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
Starhawk
Image
The antidote to climate change is community.
Starhawk
Image
I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.
Starhawk
Image
In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.
Starhawk
Image
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
Starhawk
Image
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.
Starhawk
Image
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
Starhawk
Image
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
Image
Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.
Starhawk
Image
Where there's fear, there is power.
Starhawk
Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.
Starhawk
Image
What we name must answer to us we can shape it if not control it.
Starhawk