I Am Who I Am, What I Do Is Part of That

And but one word with one of us? couple it with
something; make it a word and a blow.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There seems little point in practicing magic unless you want to do at least a few extraordinary things with this incarnation.
-Peter J Carroll, The Octavo

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
- Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
-Peter J Caroll, Psybermagick

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar
- Blue Öyster Cult, Astronomy

Offering's a complicated business.
- Jake Stratton-Kent

Another related point is that theological eclecticism to the tune of replacing this structure with pagan deities so it appeals to personal taste does the ritualist no favours as it undermines their ability to leverage a power dynamic that is better understood and has been employed countless times.
- Julio Cesar Ody, Magister Officiorum

Only fluffy bunnies need apply.
- Jake Stratton-Kent

Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t then.

- Ursula K. le Guin

...the practioners of magic have always been syncretists, experimenting intraculturally and sticking with what worked.
- Michael M. Hughes, Magic for the Resistance
#MagicResistance

Bakery and metallurgy are just different applications of alchemy, and all three are closer together in practice and mystery than most people might expect.
- Sam Block aka polyphanes Digital Ambler

Goddess preserve us.

I do not understand this division between who I am and what I do. Sounds like an issue. A serious, damaging psychological issue. If I write poetry, am I not a poet? If I fight fires, am I not a firefighter? If I play D&D, am I not a geek? Sorry about that last one...
Speaking from personal experience, I did NOT know who I was. I did, however, know who I was NOT. It took me a while, and a serious false start, to acknowledge who I was. And who I am, who I love, is an intrinsic part of a happy and healthy me. And isn't that really the important thing here? The ultimate quests? To be healthy and happy? To know Love and to help it spread in this world where there is far too little of it?

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Larry Houston's Behavior, and Not a Person

May the Goddess, in Her Infinite Wisdom and Compassion, forgive you for your crimes against yourself and humanity. I won't.

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