There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
Yes, life is a woman!
Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.
Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.
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.
Every girl is a goddess.
The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river's water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her.
Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.
I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think they're always going to be relevant not just to women but to humanity. They're living energy. There's a lot we can still learn from them.
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.
