The House Witch Quotes

“Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Hearthcraft is a spiritual path rooted in the belief that the home is a place of beauty, power, and protection, a place where people are nurtured and nourished on a spiritual basis as well as a physical and emotional basis.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Here the word ritual doesn’t mean something full-blown and complicated; instead, it means an intuitive ceremony or something set apart from everyday action by mindfulness and conscious intent. Also, the word magic means the conscious and directed attempt to effect change by combining and directing energy toward a positive goal.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Every moment is an opportunity to be in the now, to appreciate the moment and to make it magical.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Living your life is a spiritual act.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“The casual dismissal of men or women who have chosen to follow a domestic-centered path as second-class citizens, for example, is shameful when one looks at cultural mores and stories that describe the woman as queen within her home, who managed and ordered and made sure the family had a safe, warm, secure, and successful base from which to operate, thereby maximizing their chances of success in their chosen paths.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Maintaining healthy spirituality means keeping yourself relaxed, focused, and practicing something. It means keeping the lines of communication open between you and something greater than you.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Honoring the hearth means honoring your origins, where you come from each day, and where you return each night.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Here are some keywords to keep in mind when you think about hearthcraft: • Simple • Practical • Family-related • Domestic • Everyday • Household”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Therefore, someone who practices hearthcraft is someone whose spiritual practices revolve around the hearth and home, as symbolized by the fireplace and the fire that burns within it.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Live in the moment. Being in the moment is harder to do than it sounds. It means not thinking about your next action or the one you just performed, not thinking about how you have to leave in half an hour to pick the kids up from practice or how you have to remember to buy milk on the way home. It means thinking about what you are doing this precise moment instead. Just be.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“You absorb a lot of tradition in and around the kitchen simply by being exposed to how someone else performs tasks, and by replicating those techniques you are in essence maintaining a tradition of sorts.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Humankind seems to instinctively eschew responsibility. But taking responsibility for your spiritual practice, working from the heart of your home outward, is a step toward a more rewarding relationship with the world around you.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home

“Most hearth-based house witches gravitate to the path because they feel the need to care for and nurture those who are close to them.”
― Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The House Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Space with Rituals and Spells for Hearth and Home