45 Quotes & Sayings By S Kelley Harrell

S. Kelley Harrell is the author of "The Street" and "The House", two adult novels set in the African-American community that are based on the lives of real people close to her heart. Her work has been called, "rich with humanity." Harrell has appeared on numerous television shows, including BET's Comic View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Geraldo at Large, Sally Jessy Raphael's Talk Soup, The Montel Williams Show, The Today Show, Phil Donahue's American Journal, The Montel Williams Show Again, CNN 2000 Today, CNN Crossfire 2000 Today and Talkback Live. She was a featured guest on the NPR radio show Parlor Room with Chris Gethard Read more

She has also appeared on VH1's Behind the Music, VH1's Best Week Ever, VH1's I Love the 80s Special and VH1's Rock Honors: The Biggest Names in Hard Rock. Harrell has performed at venues across the country including Atlanta’s Fox Theater; Dallas’ Majestic Theater; Houston’s Verizon Wireless Theater; New York City’s Radio City Music Hall; Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center; San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium; Seattle’s Paramount Theatre; St. Louis’ Fox Theatre; Tampa’s Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center; Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and several venues in Los Angeles including the Wiltern Theater and The Orpheum Theater. She was a national spokesperson for Alzheimer’s awareness through the National Organization of Wives of Alzheimer’s patients. She is currently working on a follow-up novel to her New York Times bestseller "The Street."

Too many irons, not enough fire.
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Too many irons, not enough fire. S. Kelley Harrell
Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.
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Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback. S. Kelley Harrell
I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've...
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I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself. S. Kelley Harrell
By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can...
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By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. S. Kelley Harrell
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the...
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Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature. S. Kelley Harrell
That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of...
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That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process. S. Kelley Harrell
Have intention, sacred will travel.
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Have intention, sacred will travel. S. Kelley Harrell
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The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. S. Kelley Harrell
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We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace. S. Kelley Harrell
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We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve. S. Kelley Harrell
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If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. S. Kelley Harrell
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You don't find light by avoiding the darkness. S. Kelley Harrell
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Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency. S. Kelley Harrell
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Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with. S. Kelley Harrell
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I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit. S. Kelley Harrell
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When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next. S. Kelley Harrell
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All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves. S. Kelley Harrell
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Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning. S. Kelley Harrell
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Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power. S. Kelley Harrell
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A quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe S. Kelley Harrell
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Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge. S. Kelley Harrell
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Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing. S. Kelley Harrell
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Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared. S. Kelley Harrell
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Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. S. Kelley Harrell
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We don't heal in isolation, but in community. S. Kelley Harrell
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The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It’s our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves. S. Kelley Harrell
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Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much. S. Kelley Harrell
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What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. S. Kelley Harrell
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In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible. S. Kelley Harrell
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Need is choice come to fruition. S. Kelley Harrell
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When I say ‘practice’ I don’t meanrepeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less. S. Kelley Harrell
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A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people. S. Kelley Harrell
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If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? S. Kelley Harrell
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The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture. S. Kelley Harrell
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Being present is being connected to All Things. S. Kelley Harrell
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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. S. Kelley Harrell
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Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all. S. Kelley Harrell
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It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition. S. Kelley Harrell
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Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice. S. Kelley Harrell
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What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them. S. Kelley Harrell
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Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language. S. Kelley Harrell
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Phrases such as "I'm beside myself, " "I was frightened to pieces, " "I feel lost, " "I feel like part of me is missing, " originated from a sense of soul loss. S. Kelley Harrell
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We can only prosper where we are. S. Kelley Harrell
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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. S. Kelley Harrell