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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Write from the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
    tags: creativity, human-spirit, solitary, writing, writing-process
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “Dreams and visions are not always intended to be interpreted or analyzed. At times they say exactly what they mean, providing a set of images and meanings to be taken for no more or less than they are.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Write from the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
    tags: dreams, images, interpreting, meanings, visions
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Spirit Circle: A Story of Adventure & Shamanic Revelation
    tags: author, identity, shaman, shamanic-journeying, storyteller, transform
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the world. But none of us need be reminded that the future of our planet is being held hostage by our own cleverness, with nuclear physics, chemistry, agribusiness, mineral exploration, and bioengineering threatening our biosphere in ways we could never have imagined even twenty years ago.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Spirit Animals and the Wheel of Life: Earth-Centered Practices for Daily Living
    tags: biosphere, ecological, environmental-protection, planet-earth, threat, world
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life...”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Zuni Fetishes: Using Native American Sacred Objects for Meditation, Reflection, and Insight – A Beautifully Illustrated Guide to Zuni Spirituality and Cross-Cultural Wisdom
    tags: coma, dream, near-death-experience, perception-of-reality, reality, reality-of-life, zuni, zuni-fetish
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, The Lens of Perception: A User's Guide to Higher Consciousness
    tags: acceptance, acceptance-of-oneself, consciousness, human-perception, lens-of-perception, perceptual-reality
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett
    tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-process
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    Hal Zina Bennett
    “we begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. We begin to see that we emerge from, and are the expressions of, a single consciousness that is limited by neither time nor space.”
    ― Hal Zina Bennett, Spirit Guides: Companions & Mentors For Your Inner Journey
    tags: consciousness, other-realities, spirit-guides, spirituality
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    C.G. Jung
    “I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.”
    ― Carl Jung
    tags: jung, self-knowledge, spiritual-life
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  • #10
    “You know, I can hardly do enough thinking for myself, so if you’d like to do some of mine for me, feel free.”
    ― Craig Johnson, An Obvious Fact
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