S. Kelley Harrell Quotes & Sayings

Being present is being connected to All Things. — S. Kelley Harrell

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people. — S. Kelley Harrell

Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn't worth much. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Should be" will always be a long road. — S. Kelley Harrell

A quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe — S. Kelley Harrell

Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

There is no such thing as failure, only readiness, — S. Kelley Harrell

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature. — S. Kelley Harrell

Sacred space" is another way of saying "with intention. — S. Kelley Harrell

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are. — S. Kelley Harrell

Need is choice come to fruition. — S. Kelley Harrell

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything. — S. Kelley Harrell

You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed. — S. Kelley Harrell

A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next. — S. Kelley Harrell

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. — S. Kelley Harrell

Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you. — S. Kelley Harrell

Divination is the ketchup of shamanism. — S. Kelley Harrell

Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language. — S. Kelley Harrell

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback. — S. Kelley Harrell

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. — S. Kelley Harrell

Journeying is a lifestyle change. — S. Kelley Harrell

We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are. — S. Kelley Harrell

That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process. — S. Kelley Harrell

With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There. — S. Kelley Harrell

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow
a test you can't cheat on. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens. — S. Kelley Harrell

We can only prosper where we are. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

We don't heal in isolation, but in community. — S. Kelley Harrell

Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe. — S. Kelley Harrell

Intuition requires confidence. — S. Kelley Harrell

So many words, so little time. — S. Kelley Harrell

Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness. — S. Kelley Harrell

Everything in shamanism is about relationships. — S. Kelley Harrell

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. — S. Kelley Harrell

Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. — S. Kelley Harrell

In Spirit, there is no such thing as indifference. — S. Kelley Harrell

Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with. — S. Kelley Harrell

If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough. — S. Kelley Harrell

Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board. — S. Kelley Harrell

Have intention, sacred will travel. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings. — S. Kelley Harrell

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, — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Too many irons, not enough fire. — S. Kelley Harrell

We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace. — S. Kelley Harrell

Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

I function as an asterisk in the limbic system. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

I am my senses and nothing more, and I know this is what Allusius brings me. — S. Kelley Harrell

I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which. — S. Kelley Harrell

You don't find light by avoiding the darkness. — S. Kelley Harrell

I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit. — S. Kelley Harrell

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency. — S. Kelley Harrell

How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors? — S. Kelley Harrell

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture. — S. Kelley Harrell

I know that nothing about me has ever been lost. I just need to know how to see it. — S. Kelley Harrell

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. — S. Kelley Harrell

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing. — S. Kelley Harrell