T. Thorn Coyle quotes

“In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.16, Weiser Books

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“Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.203, Weiser Books

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“May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : FaceBook post by T. Thorn Coyle from Dec 13, 2011

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“Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

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“We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.84, Weiser Books

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“Cast yourself. You are the spell.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2005). “Evolutionary Witchcraft”, p.14, Penguin

#Casts Quotes

“True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.”
-- T. Thorn Coyle

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2013). “Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire”, p.34, Weiser Books

#Self Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Space Quotes

“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.”

Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.”

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”