Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.
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The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable, stated the Malleus Maleficarum.Starhawk
Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
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The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control
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Camp Casey defies stereotyping. It was surreal, ... Here you had these military guys with the haircut, the military body language. And when a woman organizer spoke about the camp's achievements, the men cheered, 'That's what happens when women lead'
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Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
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The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.
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Andre Agassi
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine
God has always been hard on the poor.
Jean-Paul Marat