67 quotes found
“There are three people in your life: your great love, the one you want to have children with, and the one whom you can spend the rest of your life with. If you find that last one first, you have it...”
“Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.”
“My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.”
“I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color ...”
“We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too terrifyin...”
“I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.”
“I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it.”
“I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.”
“Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.”
“Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.”
“We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor progra...”
“Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our...”
“As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.”
“A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.”
“I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.”
“Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the webs...”
“She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way o...”
“They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.”
“When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.”
“I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant.”
