Phyllis Curott > Quotes

“You are the spell the universe has cast.”
― Phyllis Curott

“Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess

“Okay you guys need the dope on the real story of the princess and the frog...So once upon a time a beautiful independent confident princess came upon a frog sitting by a pond. The frog said to the princess 'I was once a handsome prince until an evil Witch put a spell on me.'...So the smart-assed frog said 'If you will just kiss me I will turn back into a prince. And then you'll marry me move into the castle with my mother and you can cook for me and clean my clothes have my children and live happy ever after while I go rescue a damsel in distress'...Later that night the princess laughed as she sat down to dinner. 'I don't think so ' she said and dug hungrily into her plate of frog's legs. And she lived happily ever after.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Life is rich it’s full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn’t enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they’re always angry because they’re never satisfied. They’re cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they’ve achieved.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“I stood surrounded by naked women not one of them bearing even the remotest resemblance to a centerfold. We had large thighs and round bellies small breasts and breasts that had fed babies full figures and thin ones dark skin and light muscles and fat. And each was beautiful in her own unique way. Laughing and full of light the radiance shone forth from within.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Patience was what was important, not just the destination, but the journey. The goal is not just being full grown, but learning to grow.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“One of the main reasons I’ve been able to stay this strange course is its ability to prove itself to me. When I reach out, there’s something to grab hold of—to see, to touch, to feel. There’s a reply to my questions.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“Since the 1960s, many men have struggled to find a new definition of masculinity, one that does not involve shutting down emotionally only to burst out in anger or violence once those feelings surface. In the 1980s, Robert Bly, a leader of the men’s movement, wisely and sadly noted that men don’t talk about their feelings because when they look inside, they cannot find them. And the common experience of the absent father is also a reflection of that distant God whom we can’t access—He came, He procreated, He went to the office, so obey the rules while He’s gone and He’ll be back on Judgment Day to punish you if you were naughty. Expressing most feelings other than anger is taboo for men, and many of us women also have this problem of repressed emotion, especially when we enter the once-forbidden work realms of men, where strong emotion is considered a weakness. Bly’s other great and wise suggestion was that the appropriate response to such an absence of feelings is grief.”
― Phyllis Curott, Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic

“I began to understand how so many of the ancient myths recast the Goddess, and her symbols such as the snake and the apple, in negative terms. […] Violence enforced theology; stoning and other brutal deaths were inflicted on women who worshipped the Goddess, who refused arranged marriages, who were not virgins at marriage, who had sexual relations outside of marriage, or who were raped! In contrast to the increasing restrictions placed on women, the Bible simultaneously chronicled the rampant practice of polygamy in men. […] The roots of women’s inequality and the destruction of the earth are to be found in this early religious shift away from the mother Goddess, who was immanent and present in the world, to the father God, who was transcendent and removed.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“I don’t think I’d want to bring that faithless lover back to me. I’d much rather turn him into a frog.”

“Girl, he already was one.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. —LORD BYRON”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“That’s what magic is, to some extent anyway, isn’t it? Participatory praying. Not just relying on an external divinity, but on our own sacred power as well. People substitute faith for an understanding that God didn’t do it, or let it happen. We do it. We let bad things happen. We are the divine’s self-awareness, its embodiment and expression. It’s by discovering the sacred within ourselves, in each other, that we can stop things like war and murder from happening. By treating each other and the world as embodied divinity. Relying on God to do things for you is like remaining an infant, expecting your parent to take care of you. It’s up to us to take responsibility, to act out of our sense of shared divinity.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“I needed to learn the wisdom of my body and my heart, not just the wisdom of my mind. […] My body was not just some biological machine designed to carry my consciousness around. I was beginning to understand that, contrary to a culture which called the body sinful, it had intrinsic value, intelligence, and spiritual wisdom to offer me, if I would honor it.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“We can treat each other like objects, or like deities.

It’s a choice.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Actually, a spell’s a lot like a prayer. Except instead of asking a male divinity to do something for you that you can’t do for yourself, a spell draws upon your own inner, Divine gifts. It’s a way of giving that gift shape or form in the world.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“These elegant women were groomed, manicured and dipped in plastic. When was the last time they’d sweated and moaned and smeared their makeup making wild, passionate love? When was the last time I had?”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Magic works on its own timetable; because it’s organic energy, like a plant, you’re not going to make it grow, or manifest, faster by tugging on it.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Just the way a dream is a message from your unconscious, a myth is a cultural dream. Decipher the symbols and the meaning of a dream and we understand ourselves better. It’s the same with a myth—understanding it gives us insight into a deeper level of our humanity that we all share.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“The older you get the more you realize that fashion and a sense of style are about expressing yourself. It should be creative and empowering and fun.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Joy, laughter, love—real magic that changes things. Actions must be rooted in love, not in anger, even at injustice. To feel those things, you have to heal yourself, and help yourself, before you can truly help others. Change yourself and you change the world around you.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“The world’s full of magic. Other religions call it a miracle, some people call it positive visualization, scientists call it quantum reality. But it can slip right past you if you’re not paying attention. Really, that’s what a Witch is—someone who’s paying attention to those manifestations. And someone who’s learned how to work with the energy, for good.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Socrates said we were once one being, and were split into two when we came to the earthly plain. And now our search for love is the search for our other half.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Prosperity and comfort were joys everyone should have. But the pursuit of money for its own sake, at the expense of our self-respect, creativity, and compassionate humanity, was the worship of a false idol.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“At the quantum level, everything is interconnected energy, even matter.”
― Phyllis Curott, Book of Shadows

“Nature makes the Divine tangible. Like a smile expressing your inner joy, the natural world is the outer expression of an inner grace.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening

“Dreams are one of the creations of the unconscious. Our conditioning, our programming by family and culture—all lie buried deep beneath our conscious mind. And from beneath the surface of our awareness, these ingrained patterns assert their power over us, the choices we think we make freely, the life we lead, the love we fall into. As long as we remain unconscious, they also control the magic we make, our prayers and plans, and their outcome.”
― Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening