Quotes from Starhawk

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

Only poetry can address grief.

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.

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

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.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

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

Where there's fear, there is 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.

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.

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.'

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

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

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

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

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

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

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.

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

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.

An initiation is a symbolic death and rebirth, a rite of passage that transforms each person who experiences it.

The three core principles of Goddess religion are immanence, interconnection, and community.

Finally we learn the Mystery—that unless we find the Goddess within ourselves we will never find Her without. She is both internal and external; as solid as a rock, as changeable as our own internal image of Her.

In fact they were looking for weapons eager to find something they could justify the millions of dollars and massive deployment of personnel, the collection of stun-guns, tear-gas guns, pepper-spray guns, M16's, horses, clubs, and armored personnel carriers with which they intended to protect the city from our hordes of puppet carriers and potentially illegal gardeners