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“Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.”
“Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey.”
“Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.”
“Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”
“Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.”
“Shamanism uses trance states induced by rhythms, chants, or psychotropic plants to journey into spiritual worlds. Shamans consult spirits and guides to gain hidden knowledge and perform healing rituals to release emotional blockages. Vision quests, where the individual meditates alone in nature, are also common to reveal hidden aspects of ourselves.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.”
“Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available, using it to facilitate appropriate behavior and healthy development - as well as to alleviate stress and sickness - among members of their community and/or for the community as a whole.”
“Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.”
Source: Turtle Diary
“Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.”
“Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.”
“Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.”
“Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.”
“Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.”
“Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.”
“Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.”
“Shame a king at your own peril.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Shame ain’t black, Like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of the new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck of work dirt on it.”
Source: The Help
“Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
Source: The Help
“Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.”
“Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.”
“Shame and self-loathing has its upside. Without despising oneself, a person might delay ascending to a heightened degree of self-consciousness. Taking the first step towards redemption requires a tremendous commitment and much willpower.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“Shame attacks can be triggered by the most unremarkable events. We might smell a scent that subconsciously reminds the body of a shameful or traumatic event.”
Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“Shame-based clients require the kind of security-giving relationship that has been lacking in their lives.”
“Shame be damned—own the ruin of yourself.
Wear the failure like a vintage coat
—torn, tattered heart—
you are a worn out classic,
a soul of arcane salt and grit.
Outcast,
iconoclast,
standfast.
Beyond the black and white blah of buttondown norm
we clash and crash
in the candle-lit dusk
of conscious dreams and darkest desires”
Source: Drive Through the Night
“Shame blocks our connection with ourselves and with the people we care about.”
“Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.”
“Shame can be an incredible burden, making us feel not good enough no matter what we do. But shame is also the emotion that makes us honorable and kind, and motivates us to constantly improve ourselves.”
“Shame can be self-indulgence too.”
Source: Eyes, etc: a memoir
“Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.”
“Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free.”
“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.”
“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.”
“Shame causes us to force things that can never be forced, see the real as unreal, and treat the fragments as the whole.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“Shame comes in different doses.”
Source: From the Horse’s Mouth
“Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!”
“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”
“Shame does not have any effect on shameless”
“Shame does not have any effect on shameless
or
Shame does not have any effect on a shameless.”
“Shame doesn't heal people if it did, we'd have a much healthier society.”
Source: The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire
“Shame doesn't just keep us small. It convinces us we deserve to be.”
Source: Jump Ship—Let Your Spirit Rip: A Story About the Lies I Lived, the Shame I Carried, and the Life I Crafted
“Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.”
“Shame evaporates the moment you realize there is logic to your pain. Your behavior is never random; it is a history trying to speak.”
“Shame evokes anxiety about what will happen if someone really knows is, but, because it is impossible to for anxiety and anger to be felt simultaneously, we can dream our anxiety by employing anger or rage in the form of contempt... Contempt, because it feels more powerful has always helped us feel safer and more powerful than the anxiety we feel when we experience shame. [3]”
Source: Growing a Passionate Heart