Top 81 Starhawk Quotes

#1. Sexuality is a sacrament.

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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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#4. She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

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#7. Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

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#8. My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

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#9. 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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#10. Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.

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#11. 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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#12. To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

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#13. For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

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#14. 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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#15. Helping the terminally ill to consciously end their lives is a crime, while denying health care to the living is seen as sound fiscal practice.

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#16. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

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#17. The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

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#18. 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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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. But a real vision, a real change, isn't safe," Maya said. "You don't pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with your life.

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#22. 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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#23. To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

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#24. If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

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#25. Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

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#26. Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

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#27. 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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#28. Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

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#29. Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

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#30. In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all

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#31. 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.

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#32. The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist.

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#33. Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

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#34. 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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#35. May the wind carry her spirit gently May the Fire release her soul, May the Water cleanse her, may the Earth receive her, May the Goddess take her in her arms and guide her to rebirth.

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#36. Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

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#37. In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

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#38. Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.

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#39. Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. Where there's fear, there is power.

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#43. Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.

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

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#45. 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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#46. Only poetry can address grief.

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#47. 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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#48. The antidote to climate change is community.

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#49. [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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#50. 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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#51. Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms - rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

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#55. 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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#56. Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

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#57. Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.

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#58. Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

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#59. 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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#60. To choose is also to begin.

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#61. 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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#62. In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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#63. 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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#64. 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.

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#65. 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.

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#66. What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

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#67. While she couldn't deliver a comic routine to save her life, she had a well-developed ability to look blank and confused, and she found to her surprise that she enjoyed the laughter.

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#68. 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.

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#69. Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

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#70. Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

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#71. 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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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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#74. Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

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#75. 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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#76. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

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#77. Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!

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#78. Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

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#79. A lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

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#80. If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

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#81. Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

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