Quotes from Normandi Ellis

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.

In the beat of a heart, the suck of a breath, you are the universe.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

Mine is a heart of carnelian, crimson as murder on a holy day.

I return to the rhythm of water, to the dark song I was in my mother's belly.

May I rise like bread every day.

In every blade of grass rises the strength of the sun.

I molded my body in clay on the potter's wheel. I carved my own heart out of carnelian and gave to my family my red, red love.

Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.

Change is a difficult task, a dying, a dreaming, an awakening.

I remember the names of my ancestors. I speak the names of those I love. I speak their names and they live again. May I be so well-loved and remembered. In truth, may the gods hear my name. May I do work with my hands worth remembering.

I am counted as one among stars. I am sworn to life. I am bound to death.