# Starhawk

- Quotes: 7
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk

## Books

- [Dreaming the Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/the-fifth-sacred-thing.md) — 2 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> "...We believe we can continue to live and thrive only if we care for one another. This is the age of the Reaper, when we inherit five thousand years of postponed results, the fruits of our callousness toward the earth and toward other human beings. But at last we have come to understand that we are part of the earth, part of the air, the fire, and the water, as we are part of one another.” (p17)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/the-fifth-sacred-thing/we-believe-we-can.md)

> To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/to-live-with.md)

> We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/we-are-all.md)

> "What I say, what I have always said, is there has got to be an end to it. Now is the time to make an end. There will never be a better time, because there is always a reason to fight and kill and build more guns and weapons..." (p239)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/the-fifth-sacred-thing/what-i-say.md)

> Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/magic-is-another.md)

> Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.
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> Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self — but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another — or oneself — as an object.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/sexual-integrity-means.md)

> When we practice magic we are always making connections, moving energy, identifying with other forms of being. Magic could be called the applied science that is based on an understanding of how energy makes patterns and patterns direct energy. To put it another way, at its heart is a paradox:

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/when-we-practice.md)