S. Kelley Harrell

Quotes

• “We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity res...”
• “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 ...”
• “When I say ‘practice’ I don’t meanrepeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular disc...”
• “The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain n...”
• “We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that meta...”
• “It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show ...”
• “Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," o...”
• “I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be co...”
• “Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding gro...”
• “Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they ...”
• “What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how...”
• “Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate ...”
• “That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the pro...”
• “Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.”
• “A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.”
• “Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”
• “When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.”
• “Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”
• “If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.”
• “All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.”
• “Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.”
• “The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.”
• “By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”
• “a quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe”
• “In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.”
• “What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.”
• “The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.”
• “Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.”
• “Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.”
• “Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.”
• “If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”
• “Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”
• “Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.”
• “We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.”
• “Being present is being connected to All Things.”
• “You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.”
• “We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
• “Have intention, sacred will travel.”
• “We can only prosper where we are.”
• “Need is choice come to fruition.”