OH, GREAT SPIRIT,
WHOSE VOICE I HEAR IN THE WIND,WHOSE BREATH GIVES LIFE TO ALL THE WORLD, HEAR ME;
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 THAT YOU HAVE MADE AND MY EARS SHARP TO HEAR YOUR VOICE,
MAKE ME WISE SO THAT I MAY UNDERSTAND,
THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TAUGHT MY PEOPLE.
HELP ME TO REMAIN CALM AND STRONG IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT COMES TOWARDS ME.
LET ME LEARN THE LESSONS YOU HAVE HIDDEN IN EVERY LEAF AND ROCK,
HELP ME SEEK PURE THOUGHTS AND ACT WITH THE INTENTION OF HELPING OTHERS,
HELP ME FIND COMPASSION WITHOUT EMPATHY OVERWHELMING ME,
I SEEK STRENGTH, NOT TO BE GREATER THAN MY BROTHER,
BUT TO FIGHT MY GREATEST ENEMY — MYSELF,
MAKE ME ALWAYS READY TO COME TO YOU WITH CLEAN HANDS AND STRAIGHT EYES,
SO WHEN MY LIFE FADES, AS THE FADING SUNSET, MY SPIRIT WILL COME TO YOU WITHOUT SHAME.
I’m very much involved now in studying the work of Anne Wilson Shaef, which is what she calls Living in Process, and is ‘the way’ the indigenous have always lived. It is not involved with psychiatry or psychology, but is about how a group of people, helping one another, can learn to — Live in Process. It is not possible, after having lived in the matrix that we know this ‘way’, and it is ‘the way’ to which we must return. The indigenous around the world are aware of her work and fully support it.
The book I am presently reading is called, simply, Living in Process – Amazon.com Anne has deep connections to the indigenous (and is part Cherokee), and she tells wonderful stories of them that describe their ‘ways’. . . if you have any interest. ~J
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