Michael Harner Quotes

#1. He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

Michael Harner

#2. What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone.

Michael Harner

#3. Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots.

Richard Haynes

#4. So what's the verdict?" Kayla asked. "Can I act, or am I just a bimbo who got hired because I look good
in lingerie?"
"Is that a trick question?" Sean grinned. "Because I'm pretty sure you look good in lingerie.

Alison Packard

#5. Because Imre offered what every artist needs most - an appreciative, affluent audience.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.

Michael Talbot

#7. When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

Marge Piercy

#8. Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

Michael Harner

#9. Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

Michael Harner

#10. Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Michael Harner

#11. I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Amy Chua

#12. Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis.

Sid Waddell

#13. Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

Michael Harner

#14. The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

James G. Frazer

#15. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write

Ellie Rose McKee