Favorite Quotes

“In living a full empowered life, mistakes are inevitable and fantastic learning tools. So don’t be afraid to experiment. It’s not enough to buy a ready-made boxed spell or to follow a spell suggested in a book to the letter and then ‘do it’ passively and politely. You’re not in church being told what to say and when to stand, sit, and kneel. You’re doing Witchcraft! Making magick! Get excited about it! Get passionate, dirty, and downright messy!” – Fiona Horne

“It’s not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, “laid back”, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage, and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider. It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.” – Starhawk

“I learn by going where I have to go.” – Theodore Roethke

“The outstanding error of learners, in whom it is excusable, and of many teachers, who teach without wisdom, is that they associate Occultism with practices rather than with PRACTICE. I teach the LIFE of concentration and meditation…” – P.G. Bowen

“It is not through the great skill of the hunger himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter’s awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things.” – Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

“The devastated earth, the air, water, the extinct species of mankind, animal-kind, and plantkind, the drugs, suicides, family separations – these are all he result of false ceremonies.” – Barney Bush, SHAWNEE

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Harold Whitman

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke (from “Letters to a Young Poet”)

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde

“Performance is currency in the deep world’s gift economy.” – Gary Snyder