Pat Druid

“Tradition can be double edged. It can provide a map for us, guiding us along routes that others have taken, and give us heart in difficult times. It can also condition us to experience reality in a very narrow range, fogging over the freshness of the world with a dullness of expectations and belief.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become… A person who had never listened to nor read a tale or myth or parable or story, would remain ignorant of his own emotional and spiritual heights and depths, would not know quite fully what it is to be human. For the story – from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace – is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“When we repress our intrinsic and inherent connection with the Earth..... we cut ourselves off from the most vital depths of our humanity as well.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality