I didn’t fall to temptation – I rose to it.
I ate that apple because I was hungry.
I wanted what lay outside of Paradise,
a world without the burden of perfection.
Now you call all sinful women my sisters.
I say, let them claim their own damn sins.
The apple may not be perfect, but it’s mine.
Break forth my heart,
taste the fruit,
reap the reward of faith,
of blood and bone
and bathe in the darkness.
As you face loss, frustration, hurt, and conflict, invite a sense of your own dignity. Sit up, stand up tall. Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
(via goodreadss)
Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
I want somebody
with a sharp intellect
and a heart from hell.
somebody with
eyes like starfire
and a mouth with a kiss
like a bottomless well.
but mostly
I just want someone
who will love me.
when I do not
know how to love myself.
Beau Taplin
, “Priorities”(via wordsnquotes)
Magic is surprisingly simple. What can it offer?
1. A means to disentangle yourself from the attitudes and restrictions you were brought up with and which define the limits of what you may become.
2. Ways to examine your life to look for, understand and modify behavior, emotional and thought patterns which hinder learning and growth.
3. Increase of confidence and personal charisma.
4. A widening of your perception of just what is possible, once you set heart and mind on it.
5. To develop personal abilities, skills and perceptions—the more we see the world, the more we appreciate that it is alive.
6. To have fun. Magic should be enjoyed.
7. To bring about change—in accordance with will.
Magic can do all this, and more. It is an approach to life which begins at the most basic premises—what do I need to survive?—how do I want to live?—who do I want to be?—and then gives a set of conceptual weapons and techniques for achieving those aims.
I never felt safer than when I was near antifa. They came to defend people, to put their bodies between these armed white supremacists and those of us who could not or would not fight. They protected a lot of people that day, including groups of clergy. My safety (and safety is relative in these situations) was dependent upon their willingness to commit violence. In effect, I outsourced the sin of my violence to them. I asked them to get their hands dirty so I could keep mine clean. Do you understand? They took that up for me, for the clergy they shielded, for those of us in danger. We cannot claim to be pacifists or nonviolent when our safety requires another to commit violence, and we ask for that safety.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.
Church of the Morningstar 