Elder's Meditation
Elder's Meditation of the Day December 25"When you see a new trail, or a footprint that you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing."--Grandmother of Charles Eastman, SANTEE SIOUXWe never gain...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day December 27"When temptation comes, I don't say, `Yes," and I don't say, `No.' I say, `Later,' I just keep walking the Red Road - down the middle. When you're in the...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day December 28"I believe that being a medicine man, more than anything else, is a state of mind, a way of looking at and understanding this earth, a sense of what it is all...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day December 29"What you see with your eyes shut is what counts."--Lame Deer, LAKOTAAnother whole world opens up when we close our eyes and calm our mind. Be still and know;...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 1".because if you believe in something, and believe in it long enough, it will come into being."--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEEWe are created by the Great One to...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 3"We don't have to say or think what we don't wish to. We have a choice in those things, and we have to realize that and practice using that choice."--Rolling...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 4"Our circle is timeless, flowing, it is a new life emerging from death-life winning out over death."--Lame Deer, LAKOTAWhen we look at the world in the manner...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 7"When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things."--Frank Fools Crow, LAKOTAIf we want to be...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 8"Native Americans are essentially calling for righteousness. By this they mean a shared ideology developed by all people using their purest and most unselfish...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 9"So, with the Native way, it's not whether people find out about what you've done or not... that's not nearly as strong as having your source of morality within...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 10"We cannot escape remembering the important things that have happened, and we cannot escape the awareness of the important things that have not...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 28"We call it the `sacred' red road because it is the road that will lead us to living the good life, an honest and healthy life."--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWAThe...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 29"We grieve more because we have been disconnected from our earth, our first Mother, our spiritual Mother."--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWAWhere does all life come...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 30"Bright days and dark days were both expressions of the Great Mystery, and the Indian reveled in being close to the Great Holiness."--Chief Luther Standing...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day January 31"In sharing, in loving all and everything, one people naturally found a due portion of the thing they sought, while in fearing, the other found need of...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day February 1"You can't just sit down and talk about the truth. It doesn't work that way. You have to live it and be part of it and you might get to know it."--Rolling...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day February 2"Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day February 3"It's very hard to do things in the right manner, but as long as we do things right, we are in turn with the Great Spirit."--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEEWhen we...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day February 6"We hold on to our otuhan, our give-aways, because they help us to remain Indians."--Lame Deer, LAKOTAOur traditional communities and villages function on...
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Elder's Meditation of the Day February 8"No individual or group can block another individual's path or change it against what fits his nature and his purpose. It might be done for a time, but in the...
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