Quotes about Shaman

The shaman knows that the soul’s urge toward beauty is not about perfect symmetry and mainstream approval. It is not about opening doors in business, or snagging the right mate, or fitting in at the A-list parties. The shaman knows that beauty is about opening doors to joy, snagging the moment, and fitting into your own life. She knows beauty is not something to buy. It is a path, a way of living and being in the world. The only path and the only way, if you want to keep dancing and singing.

The thought of initiation scared me more than dentists. I pictured shivering naked in dark caves, eating raw meat and insects, stumbling deliriously across miles of scorching desert, hanging from my pierced chest for days on end. “Perhaps it doesn’t have to be so painful,” I mused between drags on a damp Pall Mall while thumbing for a ride in a light mist of rain outside Grosse Tete, Louisiana.

"AS WE PRESS UPON ONE ANOTHER WITH OUR INTENTIONS,

FROM OUR HEARTS FLY LUMINOUS BUTTERFLIES,

THAT INTERMINGLE AND CROSSOVER TO BE ABSORBED.

IN ABEYANCE OUR HEARTS AWAIT"

"He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe."