“Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

“The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”

“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”

“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”

“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”