Martin Shaw > Quotes

“If your story is a river, then myth is the ocean it should naturally lead to.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“Stories are the most delightful vehicles for the brightening of consciousness. True, archaic technology.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“I don’t think we should be stewarding anything at all once we’ve fallen out of right relationship with the sacred.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“We can’t crucify beauty without steadily walking into hell. Every time we walk the dog we are surrounded by hints of the Kingdom of Heaven. That’s a big thought to swim into. One of the ways we can practice being saintly is to notice that grace. And the more we abide in it the more folks around us start to notice. This is one of the attributes that used to define saints; you glimpse more of the Kingdom of Heaven around them. They are literally an eye-opener. A saint has had the saliva and dirt of the great druid Yeshua wipe the blindness from their eye. They behold.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“A myth is robust enough to hold the tension of the soul of mud”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“So much of life is not what happens but what we do with it.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Instant New York Times Bestseller – A Transformative Journey into Story, Spirit and Self-discovery

“...the trees are talking ravenese to each other. And the trees are no longer leaved but feathered, there is not bracken but fur underneath me. And everything is beating like Drake’s drum, bringing down the children of the Milky Way. The trees are bones now and thinking big thoughts like spasms through me. Some trees are covered in owl feathers some rook and sparrowhawk. Their roots are big, scaled claws. In the early morning I find I have something in me that wasn’t there before. Something is in me like a mineral, or splint of bison bone or a spirit light. It is these words:

"Inhabit the time and genesis of your original home.”
― Martin Shaw, Bardskull

“Mythic awareness is always moving us from seeing to beholding life”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“The slum must be inside us,' as the poets say.”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

“The gods in mythology often amplify the panorama of human ambition”
― Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us