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Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

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.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

If you can't feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

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.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of mor...

Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.

The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses

Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.

Western Lights: A Collection of Essays on Buddhism

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool

Moral Essays, Vol 1: de Providentia/de Constantia/de ira/de Clementia

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature