Philip Carr-Gomm quotes

“The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

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“When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.110, Random House

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“Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.48, The Overlook Press

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“The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.400, The Overlook Press

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“Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

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“When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Stephanie Carr-Gomm (1996). “The Druid Animal Oracle”, p.5, Connections Book Publishing

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“Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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“Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there is all the difference in the world. It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns - they come to embody your defences against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom; and more than that - of innocence and of openness to the world.”
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm (2012). “A Brief History of Nakedness”, p.48, Reaktion Books

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“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.”

“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.”

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“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”

“The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'”

“Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.”

“Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.”

Source : Lynne Tillman (2014). “Motion Sickness”, p.113, Red Lemonade