Book of Shadows Quotes

“Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess

“Life is rich it’s full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn’t enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they’re always angry because they’re never satisfied. They’re cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they’ve achieved.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“One of the main reasons I’ve been able to stay this strange course is its ability to prove itself to me. When I reach out, there’s something to grab hold of—to see, to touch, to feel. There’s a reply to my questions.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“Patience was what was important, not just the destination, but the journey. The goal is not just being full grown, but learning to grow.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“That’s what magic is, to some extent anyway, isn’t it? Participatory praying. Not just relying on an external divinity, but on our own sacred power as well. People substitute faith for an understanding that God didn’t do it, or let it happen. We do it. We let bad things happen. We are the divine’s self-awareness, its embodiment and expression. It’s by discovering the sacred within ourselves, in each other, that we can stop things like war and murder from happening. By treating each other and the world as embodied divinity. Relying on God to do things for you is like remaining an infant, expecting your parent to take care of you. It’s up to us to take responsibility, to act out of our sense of shared divinity.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“Prosperity and comfort were joys everyone should have. But the pursuit of money for its own sake, at the expense of our self-respect, creativity, and compassionate humanity, was the worship of a false idol.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“I needed to learn the wisdom of my body and my heart, not just the wisdom of my mind. […] My body was not just some biological machine designed to carry my consciousness around. I was beginning to understand that, contrary to a culture which called the body sinful, it had intrinsic value, intelligence, and spiritual wisdom to offer me, if I would honor it.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“I began to understand how so many of the ancient myths recast the Goddess, and her symbols such as the snake and the apple, in negative terms. […] Violence enforced theology; stoning and other brutal deaths were inflicted on women who worshipped the Goddess, who refused arranged marriages, who were not virgins at marriage, who had sexual relations outside of marriage, or who were raped! In contrast to the increasing restrictions placed on women, the Bible simultaneously chronicled the rampant practice of polygamy in men. […] The roots of women’s inequality and the destruction of the earth are to be found in this early religious shift away from the mother Goddess, who was immanent and present in the world, to the father God, who was transcendent and removed.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“At the quantum level, everything is interconnected energy, even matter.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows