Connecting to the Spirit in the Land
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2018
- A special message to the National Indigenous Guardians Network by Nii Gaani Aki Inini - Leading Earth Man (Dave Courchene),
Spiritual Advisor of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative.
It is true. What he says is true. We will pay a price for our disrespect of Mother Earth. It will be a difficult time birthing new respect for the Sprit and the land. Please show us the way back to balance and to peace.
Ya'at'eeh shik'is from Iyanbito Dinétah 👍
Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
"For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse." ~ David Abram
"Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth." ~ David Suzuki
"If we are to attempt to understand Indigenous philosophy it has to begin with the profound obligation to land." ~ Bruce Pascoe
"Intuition is the language of our loved ones. It is a knowing beyond reason that they are still right here." ~ Angie Corbett-Kuiper
"In this stillness, I am the trees alive with singing. I am the sky everywhere at once. I am the snow and the wind bearing stories across geographies and generations. I am the light everywhere and descending. I am my heart evoking drum song. I am my spirit rising. In the smell of these sacred medicines burning, I am my prayers and my meditation, and I am time captured fully in this now. I am a traveller on a sacred journey through this one shining day.” ~ Richard Wagamese
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” ~ Toni Morrison
"Go as a river... " ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
"Voices... echoing from heart, heritage and homeland -- resonate coherence, expanse and eternity." ~ Paul Jung
"Elementally precious. Elementally, worth hearing. Elementally, worth preserving. Protect what matters most: Mother Earth, and all the beauty and life she has born. Mother Earth, the elemental basis of all our lives, and all our loves." ~ Paul Jung
"Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity." ~ Henry Beston
"Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us." "There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct: we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water. (Hindus list these four and add a fifth element, space.)" ~ David Suzuki
"Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach." ~ Henry Beston
"We must as individuals and communities take the time necessary to learn how to indigenously remember what a sane, original existence for a viable people might look like." ~ Martin Prechtel
"For what made (us) possible... hold deeply, carry meaningfully, honor lovingly." ~ Paul Jung
"Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her." ~ Williams Wordsworth
This is my grandpa