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

Only poetry can address grief.

We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.

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

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.