Spiritwalk Quotes

“Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

“All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

“There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time.

The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

“Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

“All she knew was that there was more to the world than what could be perceived with the five senses, and that she couldn't accept that Mystery as having its source in some power-hungry god whose church's creeds were based on denial of all secular matters, as though the beauty of this world was not a thing to be cherished for its own sake, but was rather a testing ground for how one would or would not be rewarded in the afterlife.”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

“It's not fair." "Well, you know what Jools says about fair." Sara shook her head. "It's just the first third of fairy tale and you won't find either in the real world.”
― Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk