Top 100 Starhawk Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.”

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2. “Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.”

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3. “The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.”

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

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5. “We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.”

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6. “There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.”

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7. “She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.”

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

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “Where there’s fear, there is power.”

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12. “Systems don’t change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.”

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

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

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15. “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.”

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

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17. “The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.”

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18. “Love is the glue that holds the world together.”

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19. “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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20. “Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren’t willing to be changed by the ritual, don’t do it.”

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21. “I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women’s bodies are one expression of that sacred being.”

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22. “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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23. “Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

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24. “We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.”

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25. “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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26. “Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.”

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

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

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29. “Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”

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30. “Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.”

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

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32. “May the wind carry her spirit gently May the Fire release her soul, May the Water cleanse her, may the Earth receive her, May the Goddess take her in her arms and guide her to rebirth.”

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33. “The antidote to climate change is community.”

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34. “Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.”

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

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36. “Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.”

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37. “Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.”

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38. “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.”

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

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40. “Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.”

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41. “Sexuality is a sacrament.”

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

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43. “Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”

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44. “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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45. “Fear doesn’t go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.”

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46. “On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed...”

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

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48. “What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.”

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49. “And so we learn the Mystery: the feared Shadow, the Guardian of the Threshold, is none other than the God, who is named Guardian of the Gates, in his aspect of Death.”

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

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