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“One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.”
― Mary Greer, Who Are You in the Tarot?: Discover Your Birth and Year Cards and Uncover Your Destiny

“Taboo comes from a Polynesian word that means “sacred or holy” rather than simply “prohibited.”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

“It is usually better if you don’t try to predetermine your response, but rather ask each card, “Do you represent an ability of mine?”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

“ROTA TARO ORAT TORA ATOR The wheel of Tarot speaks the law of Hathor.”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

“I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient’s own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient’s dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.”
― Mary K. Greer, Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card

“Now we can see the real use of the Tarot pack. It is for living in and arranging our lives with. The cards are the exchange-symbols between inner and outer life…. Altogether the Tarots are a most valuable collection of psycho-physical currency convertible into either dimension. —Wm. B. Gray, Magical Ritual Methods”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

“The French occultists Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus) saw the Tree of Life as a living Tarot landscape, a detailed map of which may be found in Gareth Knight’s A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism.”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

“The Major and Minor Arcana into which the deck is divided are “arks,” or containers that, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, “hold the great secret of nature that alchemists sought to find,” the concealed knowledge of the self.”
― Mary K. Greer, Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation