GODDESS Perpetuations

I saw this over at radical goddess thealogy. It seems very much in sync with Quaker ideas or Unitarian Universalists.

Goddess Perpetuations for Daily Living

1. I strive to be in service rather than in power. With service comes humility and care. With power comes corruption.

2. I strive to live in harmony with Nature.

3. I strive to employ kindness and compassion as well as ethics and integrity.

4. I strive to be strong, tenacious and assertive, using force as a last resort, and then only tempered by wisdom, care, and discernment.

5. I strive to be accountable and responsible for my actions and expect the same of others.

6. I strive to not be influenced by power and greed.

7. I strive to be generous, supportive and nurturing.

8. I strive to work in partnership with others to create mutually beneficial relationships and associations.

9. I strive to perpetuate positive thoughts and practice life-affirming actions, knowing that what I put forth will return to me.

10. I strive to be aware I am a thread in the web of life, a microcosm of the macrocosm, and as such I affect others.

11. I strive for equality and human rights for all, no matter one's sexual orientation, race, religion or gender.

12. I strive to seek the beauty, joy and pleasures of life.

13. I strive to be grateful and know abundance, with no fear of scarcity.

14. I strive to know myself.

15. I strive to embrace diversity and tolerance for in Goddess' many faces, skin colors, sizes and shapes I see richness and have no fear.

16. I strive to honor all living things, including myself, and seek to harm none.

17. I strive to see the Divine in myself and all things, including the mundane.

18. I strive to recognize there is no one way to define, embrace or worship the Divine.

19. I strive to seek my own best path to the Divine.

20. I strive to be one with the Divine.


By: Rev. Karen Tate
Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, available now,
and Walking An Ancient Path (due in bookstores Summer 2008)