Starhawk Short Quotes

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Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

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

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

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She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The tide has turned!
The light will come again!
In a new dawn, in a new day,
The sun is rising!
Io! Evohe! Blessed Be!

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone has the right to their own opinion about a ritual, and to their own aesthetics. There's generally at least one invocation in every ritual that I could personally do without.

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The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our perception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

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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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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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