Animism Quotes
Animism Quote of the day
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.
Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.
Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.
The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.
She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.
The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.
We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.