Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

Reality is where your consciousness is located

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Gratitude is a joyful act.

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

I like to bless people and do things without the world knowing about it, because I'm not in it for the glory. I do it because it comes from my heart. As long as I keep doing that, I'm satisfied.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Enjoy your work so that others may enjoy the results.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.