There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

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.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

Only poetry can address grief.

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

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.