Alberto Villoldo Quotes & Sayings

We now know that whatever you vibrate, you create and attract to yourself. So, you work on healing yourself in order to create peace around you. You become peace. If there is conflict living within you, you cannot live in a world of peace. The world mirrors back to you perfectly the condition of your love and of your intent. And if the world you re living in is not a world that is at peace and at joy and at grace, then you have to find peace, joy, and grace within you. — Alberto Villoldo

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible. — Alberto Villoldo

The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine. — Alberto Villoldo

You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life. — Alberto Villoldo

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future. — Alberto Villoldo

Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?' — Alberto Villoldo

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake. — Alberto Villoldo

As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life. — Alberto Villoldo

The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance. — Alberto Villoldo

We often forget that growth requires sacrifice. — Alberto Villoldo

The visible and invisible worlds are inextricably intertwined ... once you've opened your eyes to this,
you can dance between them. — Alberto Villoldo

True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being. — Alberto Villoldo

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth. — Alberto Villoldo

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos. — Alberto Villoldo

Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you. — Alberto Villoldo

At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships. — Alberto Villoldo

Samadhi. Immersed in concentration and meditation, all thoughts and distractions far away. Your focus steady, you achieve samadhi. All that exists is the heart of the experience. There is no one meditating, no one concentrating, only awareness. There is no yogi, only the yoga. (3) — Alberto Villoldo

To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment. — Alberto Villoldo

Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write. — Alberto Villoldo

To become completely healed is to become the healer - bringing the beauty and meaning you found into the world. — Alberto Villoldo

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you. — Alberto Villoldo

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena. — Alberto Villoldo

It is through your presence that creates your reality. What am I creating? I am a co-creator. — Alberto Villoldo

With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity. — Alberto Villoldo

When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places. — Alberto Villoldo

When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams - fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act. — Alberto Villoldo

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future. — Alberto Villoldo

The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing. — Alberto Villoldo

The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form. — Alberto Villoldo

Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we're dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we're only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses. — Alberto Villoldo

Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully. — Alberto Villoldo

An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner. — Alberto Villoldo

To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. — Alberto Villoldo

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life. — Alberto Villoldo

We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It's only when we experience our connection to infinity that we're able to dream powerfully. — Alberto Villoldo

When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power. — Alberto Villoldo

Life and death and rebirth live within me. — Alberto Villoldo

In the West we have a disease-care system, and medicine recognizes thousands of ailments and myriad remedies. One Spirit Medicine, on the other hand, is a health-care system that identifies only one ailment and one cure. The ailment is alienation from our feelings, from our bodies, from the earth, and from Spirit. The cure is the experience of primeval Oneness with all, which restores inner harmony and facilitates recovery from all maladies, regardless of origin. — Alberto Villoldo

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness. — Alberto Villoldo

To be a seer is to walk softly on the earth and dream. — Alberto Villoldo

The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy — Alberto Villoldo

Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with. — Alberto Villoldo

When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well. — Alberto Villoldo

With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds. — Alberto Villoldo

When we're unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we're the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we're unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream - and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest. — Alberto Villoldo

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo

You can accomplish anything," she once told me, "as long as you are willing to let others take credit for it. — Alberto Villoldo

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in. — Alberto Villoldo

There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any. — Alberto Villoldo

All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning. — Alberto Villoldo

hippocampus damage on a national scale can be measured by the number of guns owned by a country's citizens. According to The Washington Post, the U.S. has the highest per capita gun ownership in the world - nearly 90 guns for every 100 people - and the highest rate of gun-related murders in the developed world.4 The hippocampus senses danger lurking behind every tree. — Alberto Villoldo

Unless you eat foods clearly marked "Certified organic by the USDA," you are taking part in a genetic experiment that is unprecedented in earth's long history. — Alberto Villoldo

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state. — Alberto Villoldo

One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or intellectual; it's kinesthetic and sensory-a knowingness that pervades every cell of your body ... you experience a transcendent awareness that penetrates your whole being. You truly grasp that energy and consciousness can never be destroyed, only transformed into myriad shapes and forms, one of which happens to be you. — Alberto Villoldo

We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak. — Alberto Villoldo

Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey. — Alberto Villoldo

We must think of ourselves as a tribe - as an international community that has come together with a common purpose of being initiated into the process.

We all have to do it together. There is a link that happens - where THE growth, my growth, depends on the others' growth around us.

We can no longer take these steps by ourselves. We have created a synergistic community. We must take a step towards knowledge together. — Alberto Villoldo

The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you. — Alberto Villoldo

The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don't have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown. — Alberto Villoldo

The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being. — Alberto Villoldo

There are those who follow maps, and those who make them. — Alberto Villoldo

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it. — Alberto Villoldo

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening. — Alberto Villoldo

When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception. — Alberto Villoldo

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well — Alberto Villoldo

In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it. — Alberto Villoldo

just as America was the first modern land where people could practice freedom of religion, perhaps someday America will be a place where we enjoy freedom from religion, and discover true spirituality through the awakening of our higher brain functions. — Alberto Villoldo

The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. — Alberto Villoldo

If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large. — Alberto Villoldo

Having the courage to dream means following your calling today, in some way, despite the facts in your life that seem to be unmovable obstacles. And then, if your canvas is unfinished at the moment you die, at least you'll die an artist rather than a dabbler who talks about how she or he would truly like to live. — Alberto Villoldo