Category: From my own teachers
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 27
“Let us put our minds together as one.” — Irving Powless, Sr., ONONDAGA If we sat in a circle and put an object in the center of the circle and we all described what we saw, everyone would see different points of view from each other. Some would even see opposites because they would…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 21
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise “Like Ironweed” CHIRICAHUA APACHE Come into my heart this morning. Allow me this day to live in the now. Help me to see all the beauty You have created in all things. Let me know myself. Today, as…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 4
“That is not our way, to set yourself apart and talk about who you are and what you’ve done. You let your life speak for you. With the Mohawk people, wisdom is how you live and how you interpret what your mother and father, what your grandmothers and grandfathers have told you about this world…
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16 Moving Quotes Teaching You How To Let Go
By Steven Bancarz Letting go is one of the most important process in one’s spiritual growth. Since ancient times, spiritual leaders and philosophers have discussed the importance of surrender and letting go. It’s easier said than done, but sometimes all it takes is a shift in perspective to completely free yourself from…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – June 26
“…when faithful human beings or other creatures called upon them for help, they [the Powers of the Four Directions] must send their powers…” — Fools Crow, LAKOTA Each of the four directions has special powers. These powers or Grandfathers are there to help us. The powers are from the East, the South, the West,…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – June 16
“For me, the essence of a medicine man’s life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.” — Archie Fir Lame Deer, LAKOTA The Medicine people focus on their Being, not their doing. After all, we are…
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Critical Habits of Mentally Tough People
We all reach critical points in our lives where our mental toughness is tested. It might be a toxic friend or colleague, a dead-end job, or a struggling relationship. Whatever the challenge, you have to be strong, see things through a new lens, and take decisive action if you want to move through it…
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Honor—and release—your loved ones this Memorial Day
“All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.” —Alberto Villoldo As we honor the lives and sacrifices of our fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, many of us also remember loved ones who have passed. In many indigenous cultures, the ancestral altar serves as a symbolic home for those who have died and…
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The Shaman
by Alberto Villoldo The shaman: is a person of knowledge and power, uses power and knowledge in service, knows that creation is not complete – we participate, we help dream the world into being, is one who has not left the garden, is not separate from nature, has an animistic relationship with the world…
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25 Quotes From Buddha That Will Change Your Life
By Steven Bancarz| Between the 6th and 4th century BCE, a man named Siddhārtha Gautama began to turn heads in Eastern India with his profound spiritual wisdom. He was given the name “Buddha”, which literally means “The enlightened one”, and to this day we still receive tremendous insight from his teachings. Interestingly, Buddha never…