Ann

"You have wandered away from your teachings. You must concentrate on your spiritual teachings...Don't be sidetracked."
--Henry Quick Bear, LAKOTA

Why are the Elders always telling us to know The culture and listen to the teachings? When We go off track, why do the Elders say, return to the teachings? The teachings tell us how to live in harmony with the Laws and principles of the Great Spirit. Living means Life – a good life, a happy life. Many of us have grown up without the teachings and the culture, that is why we don't know how to live. To improve on relationships, to treat our children with honor and to respect our Elders, we need to live by the old teachings again.

Great Spirit, today, show me how to live.

equus

I don't see it as much as a matter of spirituality, more collective wisdom. Sometimes I find it so helpful to look at a problem from the perspective of 4 or 5 hundred years and that has to include writing and voices from the past.

I believe understanding our past as individuals, cultures, and a species is important in knowing we have a place. It's ironic that at the same time it makes me realise how small a part I am it also makes me realise how much my small responsibility matters.

Ann

When I stay true to the basics, love, kindness, charity, truth, forgiveness and honour all that surrounds me, I am at peace, my spirit stays connected. When I am "out of sorts" it usually means for me that it's time to get back to the basics and get myself grounded again.

Hugs,