Anne Hill edited the memorable quotes of The Baby and the Bathwater: What I Learned About Spirituality, Magic, Community, Ecstasy and Power from 25 Years in Reclaiming Saturday, March 31, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “One of the many things I have learned is that once we are touched by a tradition, or a powerful moment in time, it stays in our DNA. Growth and maturity, if we are fortunate enough to achieve them, largely consist of coming to terms with and embracing all the influences that make us who we are.”
- Added a quotation: “The Reclaiming Tradition has benefitted from the input of many brilliant people over the years, some who know a lot about a little, and others who know a little about a lot. But there is a breaking point, when the network of communities and individuals becomes too large to run on the infrastructure we have traditionally used to support it.”
- Added a quotation: “The power of that moment was that our liturgy had gone beyond the banks of Reclaiming and entered the culture at large. The song was its own boat, unstoppable, wending its way through the landscape to so many new communities, touching the lives of more people than I could hope to know. One expects that of anthems, of songs launched with big money and bigger popularity, but to hear one’s own chant sung in a non-ritual venue by people one has never met feels pretty miraculous.”
- Added a quotation: “One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.”
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