Top 90 S Kelley Harrell Quotes
#1. The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
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#4. Engaging spirits isn't an elitist ability or industry, it's being active in the connection with All Things. It's innate to us all.
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#6. We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.
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#8. I am my senses and nothing more, and I know this is what Allusius brings me.
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#9. Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.
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#11. With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.
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#12. She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.
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#14. The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It's our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.
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#15. I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.
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#16. You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.
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#17. It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.
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#19. Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow
a test you can't cheat on.
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#20. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
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#21. I just don't like feeling this way - stuck in the middle of respecting their choice but being hurt by it. How can I heal that contradiction?" "There is no contradiction. Go with what you feel,
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#22. All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.
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#23. If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.
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#24. All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one's self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.
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#25. Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away
and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.
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#26. Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.
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#27. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.
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#28. I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.
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#29. Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom.
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#30. Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.
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#31. The idea that we sacrifice our innate wisdom at the feet of our Guides is really no different from the rigid religious doctrines that talked us out of our childhood spiritual knowing.
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#32. By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.
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#33. What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.
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#35. How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?
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#36. Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.
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#37. Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.
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#38. That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.
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#39. Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.
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#41. Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn't worth much.
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#42. A quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe
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#43. We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.
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#44. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.
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#47. It's intuition, isn't it? Depression is intuition that I don't express, and if I just express those feelings, no matter how nuts they seem, there's no need for depression.
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#48. I know that nothing about me has ever been lost. I just need to know how to see it.
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#50. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
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#52. Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.
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#53. 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.
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#54. As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#59. I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.
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#60. If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
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#63. Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.
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#64. What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.
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#65. The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
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#66. Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
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#67. We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.
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#69. In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
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#70. The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.
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#71. Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.
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#74. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
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#75. 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.
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#77. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
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#78. Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.
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#79. Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.
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#81. I know what he isn't saying. Very kindly, Simon's telling me that with all that has come to pass and all the help that has been made available to me, the only thing standing in my way now is me.
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#82. Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are.
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#83. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.
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#84. I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing
including myself.
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#85. When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
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#86. Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
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#88. The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am.
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#89. Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
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#90. If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.
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