S. Kelley Harrell

“What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.”

“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”

“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”

“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.”

“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 while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.”

“When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.”

“All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.”

“Being present is being connected to All Things.”

“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.”

“Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are.”

“I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.”

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

“Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.”

“It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.”

“Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.”

“What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.”

“Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.”

“So many words, so little time.”

“a quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe”

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”

“I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.”

“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”

“You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.”

“In Spirit, there is no such thing as indifference.”

“We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.”

“Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.”

“The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am.”

“If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.”

“Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.”

“Too many irons, not enough fire.”

“Divination is the ketchup of shamanism.”

“Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.”

“Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.”

“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.”

“I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.”

“I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.”

“We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.”

“Should be" will always be a long road.”

“Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-awayand you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.”

“That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.”

“The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.”

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”

“A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.”

“Need is choice come to fruition.”

“Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.”

“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.”

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

“Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”