Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree."
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"If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and loss. It also suggests there is predestination, a way to cheat the vagaries of Fate with foreknowledge. The cost for believing in them is tiny indeed compared to that."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion cannot be giving them what they think they want, since it is unreasonable to want to be hateful."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
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