Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom Quotes

“When we react with extreme emotion to some innocuous comment, the subconscious is acting out. When we get a sense of the wonder of life and can’t explain it, we are touching the unconscious”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings

“Here is a great secret—we ourselves are myth, we ourselves are stories. Not light imprisoned in gross, dense bodies, but light shaped into stories. A Hasidic proverb runs, “Why did God make humans? Because God loves stories.”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings

“The joker has no identity of its own. Instead, it becomes whatever it stands alongside.... There are people like that, who take on the identity of whomever they are with, and we tend to think of them as crazy--fou--and maybe that is the case. To be free of a fixed identity, of the illusion that our social personality is somehow the truth of who we are, is to achieve a spiritual freedom, the goal of much meditation, devotional prayer, and other practices. The trick is to stay free.”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings

“Frightening delusions would seize her, such as knives coming through the walls and fear of people wanting to kill her. The psychiatric profession might describe such a condition in terms of brain chemistry. In esoteric terms, we might say that the borders were breaking down between three levels—the archetypal world of principles, the lower realm of dreams, and the world of daily life.”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings

“Carry shadow on your back, embrace light in your arms,” the Tao Te Ching tells us)”
― Rachel Pollack, Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings