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“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

“4 am—if I’m ever up that early, it’s because I’m up that late.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

“The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world.”
― Hal Zina Bennett, Spirit Circle: A Story of Adventure & Shamanic Revelation