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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.

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.

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms - rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

Only poetry can address grief.

To choose is also to begin.

The antidote to climate change is community.

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

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

Sexuality is a sacrament.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

But a real vision, a real change, isn't safe," Maya said. "You don't pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with your life.

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

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

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

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

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

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

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

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

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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

Helping the terminally ill to consciously end their lives is a crime, while denying health care to the living is seen as sound fiscal practice.

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

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

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

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

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

Where there's fear, there is power.

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

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

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

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

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

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

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

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

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.