Shamanic Initiation Quotes & Sayings

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

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. — Ray Comfort

He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here. — Charles Bukowski

Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state. — Jesse Williams

People who look good in glasses mustn't die. And you look wonderful in glasses. — Torii Nagomu

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

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski

twelve plus three. Steve also reminded me that fifteen-month tours brought to bear the "law of twos" - soldiers would now potentially miss two Christmases, two anniversaries, two birthdays. Still, — Robert M. Gates

Some Indigenous Elders add lotus seed cakes to their diet in their final years, meditating on a branch continually blossoming, so that in their next reincarnation they'll have to deal with less opaque karmic mud. Thus we hope to gain a longer measure of time to bring our share of Heaven to bear on Earth. — Mary Trainor-Brigham

I hide my distress, just like
the blessed birds hide themselves
when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your
indifference to my sadness, my loved-one! — Omar Khayyam

How come only curmudgeonly old men are considered endearing, discerning, and honorable? My own Shamanic journeying on this matter has shown me that at midlife women are invited beyond the nurturing Moon-Earth embrace into the vastness of the Milky Way, where we have light, darkness, stars, moons and meteorites at our creative, reflective, and destructive disposal. — Mary Trainor-Brigham

Men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn't tolerate pain well. — Will Christopher Baer

Emptiness exists only when something else has been gouged away. — Brian Staveley

Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron. — Mary Trainor-Brigham

I don't think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are "bad with names." No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people's names isn't a neurological condition; it's a choice. You choose not to make learning people's names a priority. It's like saying, "Hey, a disclaimer about me: I'm rude. — Mindy Kaling