Michael Drake > Michael's Quotes

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.”
― Michael Drake, Shamanic Drumming: Calling the Spirits