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“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House

“Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.”
― Louise Erdrich

“Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed. ”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club

“I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife

“i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.”
― Louise Erdrich

“So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House

“Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“He had a thousand-year-old stare.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife

“I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.”
― 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, Gift Of The Dreamtime: Awakening To The Divinity Of Trauma

“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.”
― 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

“How can I know you if I don't know myself?”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Be within your heart.
See and feel with your heart.
Recognize your heart within another.
Speak words from the heart.
Receive the words of another,
within those precious chambers.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“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, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

“Historically, shamans have always been part of the society where they lived, taking care of its problems, whenever they were allowed to operate. For centuries shamanic cultures have been persecuted in the western world until they were almost entirely exterminated. They have managed to survive in secrecy or through complex esoteric camouflage. Nowadays there seems to be more freedom and this ancient knowledge can re-emerge and be used in our own cultural context and not relegated somewhere else. The world needs shamans able to function on the roads, among the electronic equipment and engines, in the squares and markets of our contemporary society.”
― Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism: A Journey into the Inner Universe

“We have two minds. One thinks, the other knows. The mind that knows goes back many lifetimes. This is the mind of the one heart, of all things: the trees, the plants, the clouds, the rivers, the mountains. The more time you spend with this mind, the more you will see Spirit around you."

Forrest Hayes (2012-02-23). Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar (Kindle Locations 1865-1866). Musa Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― Forrest Hayes, Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar

“Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.”
― Lada Ray, The Earth Shifter

“It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured.”
― Terence McKenna

“Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.”
― Will Adcock, Shamanism: Rituals For Spiritual Journeying And Creating Sacred Space

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”
― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse