Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

Only poetry can address grief.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.