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We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” ~Joseph Campbell
The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your [...]

Lakota Prayer
Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.

According to the Native People, the Sacred Space [...]

Oh, Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me, I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you [...]

“Visualize that your mind is a prestine mountain lake. At the edge of the lake is a mountain ridge with its image reflected upon the lake’s surface.”
“Imagine that your thoughts are winds that ripple the lake’s surface, preventing you from seeing the reflection clearly, but as your thoughts slow down and the breezes cease… you [...]

“Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub;
it is on the hole in the center that
the use of the cart hinges.
Shape clay into a vessel;
it is the space within that makes it useful.
Carve fine doors and windows,
but the room is useful in its emptiness.
The usefulness of what is
depends on what is not.”
Translation by Dr. Wayne W. [...]