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“No amount of reading or listening to others can substitute for the insight that comes from doing.”
― Nimue Brown, Druidry and Meditation

“The more deeply involved we are with what we do, the more power it has to affect change.”
― Nimue Brown, Druidry and Meditation

“No religion has a monopoly on ‘doing good”
― Pete Jennings, Pagan Paths: A Guide to Wicca, Druidry, Asatru Shamanism and Other Pagan Practices

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
― Bill Watterson

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Druidry is a way of life, a Spiritual Path, a philosophy; it engenders religious experience, though whether one could call it a Religion is debatable, for it certainly does not embrace any dogma. The teachings of Druidry have evolved through the centuries, and through these teachings we can find a way of understanding our own life in relationship with the world around us, and the Greater Life that flows through and gives birth to all that is. And”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Druidry today is, without doubt, a path of healing, both personal and planetary.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“The freedom to choose our own gods should be the fundamental right of every human being.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“The great mythologist Joseph Campbell stated 'Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestations'. Myths”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“I would say that Druids don't worship a single thing! I have heard that there are those who secretly worship chocolate, but I'm sure it's just a rumor. The”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Each one of us is born into this world with our own unique potential, a sort of tiny perfect piece of the whole that we are each trying to manifest against seemingly impossible odds.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Through an exaggerated reliance on the intellect we have come to view the imagination as a faculty not to be trusted or valued.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“common sense is a powerful mixture of 'gut feeling' and intelligence.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Everybody has their problems, but these needn't be your problems.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“By listening to and acknowledging the body's needs, over time, the body becomes less demanding and we become more sensitive to the wisdom of the body.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Intuition is experienced as a clear and direct knowing that, because it surfaces with no logical information to back it up, is often dismissed
as fanciful and valueless.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“While the intellect allows us to function with clear knowledge of the physical world the intuition allows us insight into the deeper regions of our human existence that are in shadow to the bright light of the intellect.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Whether they are poets, gardeners, fathers, priestesses, bank managers or a whole host of other ways of working in the world; the vision and aims of people in Druidry today are rooted in healing, in the widest sense of the word.”
― Sophie Cornish, Druids

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette

“The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.

I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks