6 Quotes by Charlene Spretnak

As Hera crowned the youngest winner, the girl addressed the crowd:I am the new moon, swelling with magic, pure in my maidenhood, ever growing stronger. The second winner spoke:I am the full moon, complete in my powers, making people with my rhythms, bathing them in light.The third said: I am the waning moon, easing into peace, knowing all that went before, I am the wise one.

Mother, sometimes in my wanderings I have met spirits of the dead hovering around their earthly homes and sometimes the mortals, too, can see them in the dark of the moon by the light of their fires and torches. There are those spirits who drift about restlessly but they mean no harm.I spoke to them, Mother. They seem confused and many do not even understand their own state. Is there no one in the netherworld who receives the newly dead?

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.