Penny Billington > Quotes

“Then real life intervenes, your psychic tuning is knocked off of the wavelength, and yearning becomes the state of your life until the next time.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“There is a virtue in cultivating contentment and appreciation, regardless of how much or little we have.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Your skin is not your separation from the rest of the world, but your connection. The biting wind which reddens your nose, the sun which warms your forearms, the rain which trickles down your neck-skin connects you to the outside world through the sense of touch.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Everything contains a spark of the divine, and through that Druids connect with the entirety of the natural world.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Every July in the city was enriched for me by the secret pleasure of smelling the flowers of a large lime (linden) tree for three streets before it came into view. Such markers in an urban landscape are especially precious.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Tension and anxiety create a barrier to awareness.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Stop reading. Breathe deeply as you look in the corners of your room. Are there any cobwebs? If so, wave to the spiders you can’t see … now turn back to this book.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“spirituality—with reverence for the real world going hand in hand with concern for our global problems.”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“Wherever you are, greet the day. Look at the weather and note how you feel, how it affects you. Through the weather conditions, you can link to the elements each time you do this. Which element is predominating today? What is your response to it?”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“S/he paces in to the centre of the labyrinth, places a shell, a feather,”
― Penny Billington, The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

“The opinions of previous generations of magicians have been formed through prolonged thought in peaceful atmospheres, without distractions, in unhurried evenings of study, experiment and recording. They come from a time when occult knowledge was hard to obtain and resources were few, but what there were, had a reliable provenance. Each tool, each exercise in spiritual development, had significance and was valued accordingly.”
― Penny Billington, How to stop the rain: Conversational Magic with the Cosmos