The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.

� Cleanthes

If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There
is no turning back. We can only move forward.

� Vivianne Crowley

The Great Spirit is in all things, he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is
our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into
the ground she returns to us�.

� Big Thunder (Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin

Soon all of you immortals will be as dead as we are!

Come on then, what are you waiting for?
Have you run out of thunderbolts?

� Euripides, The Trojan Women

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.

� Denise Sevier Fries, Parca�s Forsaken

Myths are things that never happened but always are.

� Sallustius, 4th-century writer of Hellenic paganism

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

� Emily Dickinson, American poet (1830-1886)

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian � it is generally Pagan; that is
to say, human, natural.

� Robert G. Ingersoll

We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.

� Raven Grimassi

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

� Scott Cunningham

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide,
he already has it.
� Osho

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

� Ovid

Zeus does not bring all men�s plans to fulfillment.

� Homer

Sleep is the best meditation.

� Dalai Lama

Regard Heaven as your Father, Earth as your Mother, and All That Lives as your
Brother and Sister.

� Native Wisdom

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing,
but doubt everything.

� Lord Byron

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

� Frank Lloyd Wright

No day shall erase you from the memory of time.

� Virgil

This planet is our home.

Our life and hers are interdependent.

� Doreen Valiente

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

� Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

� Socrates

Mythology is what we call someone else�s religion.

� Joseph Campbell

It still goes on today.

� Cecil Williamson, English Neopagan witch (1909 � 1999)

Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea.

� Pythagorus

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold � all acts of love and
pleasure are My rituals.

� Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

Man�s heart away from nature becomes hard.

� Standing Bear

A green Yule makes a fat churchyard.

� Olde English proverb

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play with your hair.

� Khalil Gibran

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an
artist.

� Lon Milo DuQuette

Neo-Paganism �is in its essence the worship of the powers of this world. Beautiful
or terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky above, which is One.

� C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic (1972)

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and
love.

� Jane Ellen Harrison

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable
mould myself.

� Henry David Thoreau

The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.

� Chief Sealth

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the
wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

� William Butler Yeats

There are some situations even a half-Sidhe grand wizard can�t fix.

� Ellen Cannon Reed

I believe that Nature is a very, very good example of how to live.

� Cassandra Latham-Jones

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead
in nature.

� Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time is artificial.

� Sybil Leek

Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our
permission, can encase our every action.

� Dorothy Morrison

Give the Goddess her due, even when her due is grief.

� Darkovan proverb

Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit. � Called or not called, the god will be
there.

� ancient Roman saying

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

� Black Elk

Enjoy yourself�it�s later than you think.

� Socrates
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the
design of our collective humanity.

� Lisa Hunt, artist, author, illustrator

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

� Cate Tiernan, American author

The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are
caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.

� Ly De Angeles

A person should tend to the oak if they want to live under it.

� Egils� Saga

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of

living in the community of Nature.

� Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm

Magickal experiences are intuitive experiences felt at the spiritual level.

� Ellen Dugan

Carpe Diem!

� Horace

So many people throughout my life have told me who I am, what I must do, what I
can�t do, what I have to complete, and what I will never be able to accomplish�and
then I met the Goddess.

� Amythyst Raine Hatayama

The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that �once a witch
always a witch.

� Gerald Gardner

I guess you could describe me as a Goddess-worshiping Christian Pagan Buddhist.

� Cybill Shepherd, American actress

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

� Sophocles, Greek tragedian

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from
within, not without.

� Aleister Crowley

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

� Oscar Wilde

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

� Alan Watts

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

� Zeno

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

� Dion Fortune

Witchcraft � is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to

commune with the life force of the universe,
and to thereby better know your own life.

� Christopher Penczak

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

� John Keats

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

� Lucan

The gods too are fond of a joke.

� Aristotle

No matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most
crucial.

� Dorothy Morrison

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

� Voltaire
So here are you, and here am I,
Where we may thank our gods to be;
Above the earth, beneath the sky,
Naked souls alive and free.

� George Orwell, writer (1903 � 1950), The Pagan

You are the spell the universe has cast.

� Phyllis Curott, Wiccan priestess, attorney, and author

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

� Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and
anthropologist (1891 � 1960)

Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both
Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping
in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one
being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and
unconditional love. �High Priestess Enoch

� Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who
Found and Embraced the Craft

The Wheel will turn again.

� Lynne Cantwell, Seasons of the Fool

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into
the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering
of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If
this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

� Zitkala-Sa

greetings

These are some of the common greetings used by witches:

merry meet A common Wiccan greeting, sometimes abbreviated mm.

MM Abbreviation for the Wiccan greeting merry meet.

merry part A common Wiccan parting, sometimes abbreviated mp.

MP Abbreviation for the Wiccan parting merry part.

blessed be A common Wiccan greeting and parting, sometimes abbreviated bb.

Sometimes you will here jokes about blessed bees.
 BB Abbreviation for the Wiccan greeting blessed be.

LL New Age and Witchcraft greeting and parting, meaning love and light.
Sometimes you will hear jokes with different meanings for the two Ls, such as lust
and licks.

em hotep Egyptian greeting. Translates into �in peace� or �in love�.

93 Thelmic greeting. �It�s the Gematria (numerology) for the word thelma (Will)
and Agape (Love), used as a Thelmic greeting.�, according to Snakedaddy156. �93 is
the numeric value of the Greek words for Love and Will. 93 is shorthand for �Do as
thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the Law. Love under Will.� �,
according to Cerridwyns Fire.