Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

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.

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.

We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.

There's no such thing as a cultureless anything. By virtue of animism, we are all part of a community.

Animism is reciprocity.