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Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft QUOTES

1 " Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

2 " Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

3 " Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

4 " Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

5 " Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offered sex under the cloaking of the sacred. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

6 " There are three people in your life: your great love, the one you want to have children with, and the one whom you can spend the rest of your life with. If you find that last one first, you have it made. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

7 " Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

8 " My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

9 " It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of the use of strength. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

10 " Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

11 " There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it? "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

12 " I see no reason that a man should have any issue with worshiping a goddess any more than a woman would in worshiping a male deity. It is undeniable that women, particularly in the Abrahamic faiths, have been doing just that for thousands of years, though they do like to sneak in the divine feminine under the cloak of the Virgin Mary. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

13 " Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

14 " Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

15 " Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

16 " I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

17 " The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak something here or there to live happily ever after. It allows for spiritual sloth in the certainty of providence. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

18 " I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

19 " We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

20 " I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft