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Starhawk Biography

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, teacher and activist. She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and for On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion. Starhawk's book The Spiral Dance (1979) was one of the main inspirations behind the Goddess movement. In 2012, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

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To choose is also to begin.

Begin, Choose, Inspirational

The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the earth; He is the grain. She is the all encompassing sky; He is the sun, her fireball. She is the Wheel; He is the traveler. He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the Mother and Destroyer; He is all that is born and is destroyed.

Born, Destroyer, Goddess, Mirrors, Mother, Sacrifice

A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.

Animal, Elemental, Expression, Plant, Real, Society

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.

Alive, Inner, Opportunity, Transformation, Way, Willing

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

Arise, Return, Test, Tests, Time

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

Alive, Chance, Creative, Factors, Generations, Thousand

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.

Affects, Continuous, Energy, Essence, Magic

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.

Beware, Dark, Embracing, Half, Light, Organization

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

Glue, Holds, Love, Love Is, Together

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

Answer, Answers, Control, Names, Shape, Shapes

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

Cells, Dance, Mother, Names

On every full moon, rituals. . . take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

Beach, Computer, Men, Moon, Nurses, Teacher

Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone. Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.

Becomes, Integrity, Make, Mean, Self, Truth

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; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is. . . the ultimate adventure.

Adventure, Dream, Infuse, Real, Uncharted, Weave

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

Paganism, Reveal, Truth, Witchcraft

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

Away, Gate, Going Away, Naked, Walk, Walks

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.

Bud, Claw, Men, Moon, Separate, Stars

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.

Compared, Hierarchy, Holiness, Meaning, Ranked, Sacred

Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

Children, Love Is, Tree, Place, Enact, World

a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

Act, Courage, Day, Mistake, People, Reputation

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