"Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed"

-- Michael Harner

#West Quotes #Shamanism Quotes #Needed Quotes

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.”

Source : "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. May 30, 2012.
“A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.”
“Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.176, Ageless Reads
“I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!”
“Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly”
“Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.”
“As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.”

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