Rachel Pollack famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.
-- Rachel Pollack

#Body #Violence #World
We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.
-- Rachel Pollack

#Mean #Evil #Darkness
To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.
-- Rachel Pollack

#Spiritual #Play #Secret
We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.
-- Rachel Pollack

#Sake #Needs #Redemption
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.
-- Rachel Pollack

#Two #Bird #Paganism

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
Dance in the body you have.
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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