Elder's Meditation of the Day

"If the Great Spirit wanted men to stay in one place He would make the world stand still; but He made it to always change..."

~ Chief Flying Hawk, OGLALA SIOUX ~

The Elders tell us change occurs in two directions. They say, "T… Read full post »

Earth Prayer and Meditation:

And now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still…

  For once on the face of the earth let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much.  

It would be an… Read full post »

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was... The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it..."

~ Chief Joseph, NEZ PERCE ~

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"If you listen close at night, you will hear the creatures of the dark, all of them sacred - the owls, the crickets, the frogs, the night birds - and you will hear beautiful songs, songs you have never heard before. Listen with your heart.… Read full post »

Raising an Environmentally Responsible Child in Today’s Throw-Away World

~ by Stacey Irwin ~ Contributor to Think Green on Allthingshealing.com ~ 

Parenting is tough. Not only are you charged with raising a child to be physically and emotionally healthy but als… Read full post »

 For a New Beginning

  In out-of-the-way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

  For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emp… Read full post »

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"The Old People would gather words as they walked a sacred path across the Earth, leaving nothing behind but prayers and offerings."

~ Cleone Thunder, NORTHERN ARAPAHOE ~

Whenever we walk on the Earth, we should pay atten… Read full post »

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"It's time. If you are to walk the path of heart, then it is time..."

~ Nippawanock, ARAPAHOE ~

If not now, when?

If not me, who?

To walk the path of the heart is a great honor. Every human has the choice to… Read full post »

Spring

Somewhere
a black bear
has just risen from sleep
and is staringdown the mountain.
All night
in the brisk and shallow restlessness
of early springI think of her,
her four black fists
flicking the gravel,
her tonguelike a red fire
touching the grass,
the cold water.
There is only one qu/… Read full post »

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"But the great spirit has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature's university, the forests, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals which include us."

~ Walking Buffalo, STONEY ~

What we really… Read full post »

Elder's Meditation of the Day

"But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit."

~ Walking Buffalo, STONEY ~

Nature is the greatest teacher on the Earth. Nature produces many… Read full post »

For a Mother 

Mother,

Your voice learning to soothe

Your new child

Was the first home-sound

We heard before we could see.

 Your young eyes

Gazing on us

Was the first mirror

Where we glimpsed

What to be seen

Could mean. 

Mother,

Your nearn… Read full post »

"We must all become caretakers of the Earth."

~ Haida Gwaii Traditional Circle of Elders ~

Creative release comes only when the thinker is the thought - JKOnline Daily Quotes 

So long as the 'me' is the observer, the one who gathers experience, strengthens himself through experience, there can be no radical change, no creative release. That creative release comes only wh… Read full post »

 Elder's Meditation of the Day 

"Anyways, with medicine there's a time and a place for everything. It only comes around once. You have to get it at the right time."

~ Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK ~

  The old ones say two things must be present f… Read full post »

 Awareness takes place when one observes - JKOnline Daily Quotes 

You know, concentration is effort: focusing upon a particular page, an idea, image, symbol, and so on and so on. Concentration is a process of exclusion. You tell a student, 'Don't look out of the window; pay attentio… Read full post »

Dreams 

All night

the dark buds of dreams

open

richly. 

In the centre

of every petal

is a letter,

and you imagine

  if you could only remember

and string them all together

they would spell the answer.

It… Read full post »

The Moon is Constant

It is important in life to be constant. The ancients urged their students to look at the moon. It was faithful to its course. It was the center of the night sky. For thousands of years, children, women, and men looked up… Read full post »

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. 

  Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. 

 If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know. … Read full post »

Spring - 365 Tao, by Deng Ming-Dao

Sun and moon divide the sky,

Fragrance blooms on pear wood bones:  

 Earth awakens with a sigh.

Wanderer revels on the path alone.  

 It is the time of equinox, when day and night are briefly equ… Read full post »

The Bee and Jupiter

A bee from Mount Hymettus, the queen of the hive, ascended to Olympus to present Jupiter some honey fresh from her combs. Jupiter, delighted with the offering of honey, promised to give whatever she should ask.  She therefore besought him, saying, "/… Read full post »

Water 

 When the ancients and their students stopped to rest by a pure flowing stream, the teachers compared Tao to water. Water is flowing. Every drop is made of the same substance. Water never fears being divided, because it knows it will flow back together in t/… Read full post »

The Butterfly And The Cocoon

 Once upon a time a teenage boy was the student of a guru in India. The boy came to the guru one day to report that he had found a cocoon, and he was very excited about it. The guru advised the boy to… Read full post »

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

~ Thomas Merton ~

I read and walked for miles… Read full post »

 A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than the woods and swamps that surround it.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~