“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”

— Thales of Miletus

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“I think onstage nudity is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”

— Shelly Winters

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“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

— C.S. Lewis

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“The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I wonder. If a symbol can be "tainted" no matter what it was used for previously, what does it take to "purify" the symbol?

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“As a pagan, I've found that 99% of my practices and worshiping consists of just going outside, sitting still, shutting up, and listening.”

— AmericanCeltic

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“I'm taking my dreams back. You can share them if you want. But don't buy into this sacrifice "for the greater good."”

— NeoWayland, Why does your enlightenment demand that I sacrifice?

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According to popular culture, magick is about breaking the rules and molding reality.

Nope.

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Opening yourself

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Earn their respect

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I’m really enjoying this winter season.

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“Morality ought to be filed under Philosophy, not Religion.”

— Chas S. Clifton, How to Ruin the Mysteries, or Religion is not Moral

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Before and after

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