Quotes from Timothy Roderick

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Love, tenderness, and compassion are universal human emotions that have long quickened the heart and informed the spirit.

Power is a natural state of being that comes from uniting with the vast flow of nature and operating from an experience of accord with that flow.

A symbol is a form that represents something else.

Since Wicca is a nature religion, one important goal of the path is to experience the life force of nature, the animating energy, as it flows within you.

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

Take a deep breath. Don't hold back. Go ahead; fill your lungs and feel them expand.

Success in many martial arts, such as akido, tai chi and qui gong, depends on the practitioner tapping into his or her spiritual energy, also known as chi or ki, through specialized breath control techniques.

The greatest source of power for Wiccans is, above all else, spiritual truth. Wiccans leave blind faith to the practitioners of other spiritual paths.

Aside from the fact that regular meditation can lead to profound insights and life-changing understanding, it also has its more mundane uses. It helps you to relax; it promotes good sleep, better concentration, and improved overall health.

Meditation techniques that come to us from the East—in particular from China, Japan, and India—lead the practitioner toward physical and mental stillness.

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

In Europe's Neolithic past, long, long ago when human communities were mostly tribes, in the ancient days of our ancestors well before the introduction of any spiritual path we know—or could possibly imagine—earth-centered spiritual practices were customary.

Spirituality had little to do with lofty philosophical notions—the things that emerge from thinking—it centered on the hard facts of life.

In the West we have television timing. We like action—and lots of it.

Like our Eastern counterpart's, the goal of the Western style of meditation is that of bypassing the critical thinking mind and its processes. But instead of doing so with stillness, it accomplishes the same task with activity and imagery.

A guided imagery meditation is something like a controlled, planned dream through which someone else leads you.

Wiccans therefore first come to accept that words are only valuable as signposts and guides that point toward mystic experience.

To Wiccans, a word is not reality itself. For example, the word "apple" is not itself an apple.

Wicca is not an "ancient" religion. It has practices that contemporary practitioners have derived from (and interpreted from) the ancient past, but it is a religion of recent development. The contemporary Craft traces much of its known lineage to approximately the 1950s in England.

Throughout the Middle Ages and particularly during the Renaissance period, the word "Witchcraft" was liberally applied by the Christian church and its authorities to the native religious practices and customs that existed for thousands of years before Christianity.

Some scholars claim that over 250,000 people were put to death for the crime of Witchcraft during the "burning times" in Europe, while others say the number reached as high as nine million.