Diane Stein > Quotes

“Do learn to say no. Many people will take and take from you, and keep on taking. They will drain you, aggravate you, impose upon you, and take advantage of you—if you let them do it. Your job is not to let them.”
― Diane Stein, Essential Reiki Teaching Manual: A Companion Guide for Reiki Healers

“The goddess is not an out-there force among the far stars or beyond death, but is here and now and living. In philosopher Mary Daly's concept of active creation, she is a verb rather than none and is women's Be-ing. Since the goddess is everyone within and all around us, the powers of divinity and creation are both individual and shared by all. She is the power to make of women's lives what women will. With the tenant, "Thou Art Goddess", free of choice is a central issue; women take charge of who they are and what they do, not with blame or guilt, but with responsibility for their actions and choices.”
― Diane Stein, The Women's Spirituality Book

“A religion going back to the beginning of time and before the beginnings of history (or herstory), the Goddess movement is highly relevant for women of today. Its foremost idea is that the Earth is alive and a Goddess and that all who live are a part of her. Everything that exists participates in Goddess, in the creation of life on the planet. Each Be-ing on the Earth creates and influences the conditions and qualities of all life. Divinity is female, and is birth-giving\creative; all are a part of Goddess and are divinity. Where patriarchal values have submerged the Goddess, abuses to women and people of color and to the earth have created a less than desirable quality of living for too many. Where women's Goddess values are returning, women are validated, all people are honored as equal and free, and the planet begins to heal.

From the Introduction to The Goddess Celebrates: an Anthology of Women's Rituals, Edited by Diane Stein, published in 1991.”
― Diane Stein

“Central to Women's Spirituality is the concept of women's self-empowerment, and this is central in women's Goddess rituals. Rituals in Women's spirituality create a microcosm, a 'little universe' within which women try out what they want the macrocosm, the 'big universe' or the real world to be.

From the Introduction to The Goddess Celebrates: an Anthology of Women's Rituals, Edited by Diane Stein, published in 1991.”
― Diane Stein

“No one in male history has ever told women that they can change the world and can choose their own lives.

From the Introduction to The Goddess Celebrates: an Anthology of Women's Rituals, Edited by Diane Stein, published in 1991.”
― Diane Stein