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Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
– Thomas Merton

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  1. A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of -œkilling-. – James David LewisWilliams
  2. A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. – Dean Koontz
  3. Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 – Thomas Merton
  4. Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer. – Patti Smith
  5. Any prophet who does not refer you to christ is not a true prophet. – Patience Johnson
  6. A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn’t really mind it. – Criss Jami
  7. False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  8. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  9. You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
  10. A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same – Alchemist
  11. You are the Magician.You are the alchemist of your life. You have the power to manifest the highest vision of your life. – Eileen Anglin
  12. Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.-Soothsayer – KungFuPandaMakers
  13. He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle -“ that should be his tone. – Margaret Atwood
  14. Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it. – Anthon St Maarten
  15. Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better. – Lewis Thomas
  16. It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  17. Consciousness is a born hermit. – George Santayana
  18. In every colour there’s the light.In every stone sleeps a crystal.Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:Man is the dream of the dolphin – Enigma
  19. The world must begin sharing again. We need more kindness. -Takua Kawirembeyju, Guarani Shaman of Paraguay – Nancy Connor
  20. Loneliness-”since I was trying to escape it-”was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness. – Kb Abe
  21. This is a time of change,- the Shaman said. -œThis is a time of enormous power. – PJ Parker
  22. Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he’s a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd. – Julia Kent
  23. I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It’s what I have been elected by God to do. – Clive Barker
  24. The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire. – Thomm Quackenbush
  25. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  26. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  27. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
  28. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
  29. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  30. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  31. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
  32. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  33. The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
  34. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
  35. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  36. All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
  37. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  38. Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
  39. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  40. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton

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