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The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
Starhawk (Miriam Simos)
Shows how Goddess religion can become the means of expanding awareness, tapping creativity, and encouraging community.

1 "I am Goddess. You are God, Goddess. All that lives and breathes, loves, sings in the unending harmony of being is divine."

2 "Justice is an inner sense that each act brings about consequences that must be faced responsibly."

3 "The All-That-Is-One is not now and never has been separate from this existing physical world. She is here, now, IS each of us in the eternal changing present; is no one but you, is nowhere but where you are – and yet is everyone."

4 "The universe is a fluid, ever-changing energy pattern, not a collection of fixed and separate things. What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being."

5 "We connect with Her [Goddess] through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all. She is the full circle."

6 "Awareness of energy is awareness of the great dance of the universe. Seemingly intangible, it underlies all that we can touch….Awareness of your own energy is the awareness that flesh and spirit are one, that thou art Goddess, eternally linked, connected, at one with the moving spirit of All."

7 "The laws of ecology are the laws of energy. Everything is interconnected; every action, every movement of forces, changes the universe."

8 "We are already one with the Goddess – She has been with us from the beginning. So fulfillment becomes…a matter of self-awareness."

9 "The Goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where She is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart. She is singing, crying, moaning, wailing, shrieking, crooning to us: to be awake, to commit ourselves to life, to be a lover in the world and of the world, to join our voices in the single song of constant change and creation."

10 "The secret of immortality lies in seeing death as an integral part of the cycle of life. Nothing is ever lost from the universe. Rebirth can be seen in life itself, where every ending brings a new beginning."

11 "All things are interdependent and interrelated and therefore mutually responsible. An act that harms anyone harms us all."

12 "The Goddess is manifest in the food we eat, the people we love, the work we do, the homes in which we live."

13 "The Goddess says, 'If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For I have been with you from the beginning.'"

14 "The Goddess has infinite aspects and thousands of names – She is the reality behind many metaphors. She IS reality, the manifest deity, omnipresent in all of life, in each of us."

15 "Oneness is attained not through losing the self, but through realizing it fully. Honor the Goddess in yourself, celebrate your self, and you will see that Self is everywhere."

16 "Images bridge the gap between the verbal and non-verbal modes of awareness; they allow the two sides of the brain to communicate, arousing the emotions as well as the intellect."

17 "We are continually renewed and reborn whenever we drink fully and fearlessly from the cup of the wine of life."

18 "Nature knows best….It is through study and observation of nature, of the visible, physical reality, that we can learn to understand the workings of the underlying reality."

19 "Love is not only an energizing force, but an individualizing force. It dissolves separation and yet creates individuality."

20 "God is within and without. Like the Goddess, He in invoked in many ways: singing, chanting, drumming, dancing, a whispered poem, a wild shout. However we call Him, He awakens within us."

21 "Love is the glue that holds the world together."

22 "The Goddess is manifest in the physical world, and the more we understand its workings, the better we know Her."

23 "We are each a part of the interpenetrating, interconnecting reality that is All."

24 "The circle is ever open, ever unbroken. May the Goddess awaken in each of our hearts."

25 "The Goddess is continually revealing Herself."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite