67 quotes found
“I mean every word of my divine chaos.”
“Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.”
“A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.”
“The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.”
“A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.”
“Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.”
“Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.”
“It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of ...”
“Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.”
“There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already ben...”
“I see no reason that a man should have any issue with worshiping a goddess any more than a woman would in worshiping a male deity. It is undeniable that women, particularly in the Abrahamic faiths,...”
“Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.”
“Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.”
“When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I c...”
“Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.”
“I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.”
“The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak some...”
“I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indi...”
“We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.”
“Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.”
“Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offe...”
“I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.”
“If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.”
“Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.”
