Starhawk Quotes

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.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

The expression of divinity is in variety.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world.

In this great auditorium under the sky all of us are free. When God gave us this wonderful outdoors …, He made no distinction of race, or creed, or color.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

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

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.