S. Kelley Harrell quotes:

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

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

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.

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.

Being present is being connected to All Things.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

Need is choice come to fruition.

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

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

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

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."

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

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

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

We can only prosper where we are.

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.

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