Modern Shamanism Quotes

#1. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

S. Kelley Harrell

#2. Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. It takes effort to accomplish God's will for your life. Until you know God's plan for you, it's impossible to achieve it.

Paul Silway

#4. Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.

S. Kelley Harrell

#5. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.

C.G. Rousing

#6. Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

Helen Hayes

#7. In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do, trying to lyricize the filth and the decay.

Gary Shteyngart

#8. How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?

S. Kelley Harrell

#9. When I say 'practice' I don't mean
repeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.

S. Kelley Harrell

#10. Under Arab rule, Palestine had always been a somnolent desert land that could have sustained no authentic twentieth-century Arab awakening. Palestine without Jews is a not a nation but a naqba.

George Gilder

#11. Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

McKayla Maroney

#12. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

S. Kelley Harrell

#13. Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.

S. Kelley Harrell

#14. Learning shamanism isn't just about acquiring techniques in how to do it, but also how to incorporate and deal with the
changes it brings to everyday life.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

Amitav Ghosh

#16. I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don't have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is.

S. Kelley Harrell

#17. At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of
cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what
remains its critically profound gift to the present lies in its
simplistic roots of the past.

S. Kelley Harrell

#18. For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves.

Aristotle.