The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
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.
Love is the glue that holds the world together.
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.
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.
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.’
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
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.
The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.
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...
For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.
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.
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.
Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
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.
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.