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O'siyo Oginalii
Tsilugi
Hello Friends
Welcome!
(Cherokee)
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Wakan Tankan Nici Un
"May the Great Spirit walk with you"
Yigaquu osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi
"May the Great Spirit's Blessings Always Be With You"
Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin
"We Are All Related"
Ea Nigada Qusdi Idadadvhn
"All My Relations In Creation"
(Cherokee)
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"We who are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of Creation in many hues. How can people say one skin is colored, when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well."
~Polingaysi Qoyawayma, Hopi ~
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Words of Wisdom
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged....
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
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 childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
-Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950
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The Sunset
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Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy...
But anywhere is the center of the world.
~Black Elk
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I Will Walk
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I will walk into somebody's dwelling,
Into somebody's dwelling will I walk.
To thy dwelling, my dearly beloved,
Some night will I walk, will I walk.
Some night in the winter, my beloved,
To thy dwelling will I walk, will I walk.
This very night, my beloved,
To thy dwelling will I walk, will I walk.
~Chippewa
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Chief Seattle's
Speech to All People
This is an English version by Ted Perry of the speech Chief Seattle gave in his native tongue. In 1854 this speech was given upon requests from the U.S government to take the land that Chief Seattle's people- the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes lived upon. It is not a direct translation, but inspired by and true to the spirit of the speech he gave.
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water how can you buy them?
"Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.
"We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man, all belong to the same family.
"The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
"The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.
"If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.
"Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
"This we know the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
"One thing we know our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
"Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.
"When the last Red Man has vanished with his wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirits of my people left?
"We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children and love it, as God loves us all.
"As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you. One thing we know there is only one God. No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart. We are brothers after all."
Here's a link to a more accurate version: http://www.suquamish.nsn.us/chief.htm
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I love all of these, Zamurito.
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Wakan Tankan Nici Un
"May the Great Spirit walk with you"
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I like this one, too. In fact, I just PMed it to somebody.
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Flying free,
I see!
There are no things
that can bind me
~ Mayflow
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Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?
~Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket" - Senaca~
...... everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
-Mourning Dove (Salish) 1888-1936
... I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)(Teton Sioux)
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Give Us Hearts to Understand
Give us hearts to understand;
Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;
never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;
Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
never to take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts to understand
That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;
that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
that as we care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten who we are.
We have sought only our own security.
We have exploited simply for our own ends.
We have distorted our knowledge.
We have abused our power.
Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
help us to find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
help us to find the way to restore our humanity.
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
whose breath gives life to the world, hear me;
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in Beauty.
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"Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand even when I have gone away from you."
~Pueblo Blessing ~
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Earth Teach Me to Remember
by John Yellow Lark
Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth Teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep in the rain.
Ute, North American
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Prayer
by Mark Nepo
O Endless Creator, Force of Life, Seat of the Unconscious,
Dharma, Atman, Ra, Qalb, Dear Center of our Love,
Christlight, Yaweh, Allah, Mawu,
Mother of the Universe...
Let us, when swimming with the stream,
become the stream...
Let us, when moving with the music,
become the music...
Let us, when rocking the wounded,
become the suffering...
Let us live for the grace beneath all we want,
let us see it in everything and everyone,
till we admit to the mystery
that when I look deep enough into you,
I find me, and when you dare to hear my fear
in the recess of your heart, you recognize it
as your secret which you thought
no one else knew...
O Let us have the courage
to hold each other when we break
and worship what unfolds...
Let us embrace
that unexpected moment of unity
as the atom of God...
O nameless spirit that is not done with us,
let us love without a net
beyond the fear of death
until the speck of peace
we guard so well
becomes the world...
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"All of this Creation is Sacred...And so do not forget. Every Dawn as it comes
is a holy event and
every day is holy, for the light comes from Wakan-Tanka...
you must remember that the Two-legged and All other peoples who stand upon this
Earth are Sacred and should be treated as such..."
(White Buffalo Woman)
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"...The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has been before. Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along. You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be..." (Alan Ashley-Pitt)
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
(James Thurber)
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When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space.
Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance.
Time takes on a different dimension.
Emotions flow more freely.
The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred."
(Sun Bear)
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"The world is indeed full of frightening things and we are helpless creatures surrounded by forces that are inexplicable and unbending. The average man, in ignorance, believes that those forces can be explained or changed; he doesn't really know how to do that, but he expects that the actions of mankind will explain them or change them sooner or later. A sorcerer, on the other hand, does not think of explaining or changing them; instead, he learns to use such forces by redirecting himself and adapting to their direction. That's his trick. There is very little to sorcery once you find out its trick. A sorcerer, by opening himself to knowledge, falls prey to those forces and has only one means of balancing himself, his will ; thus he must feel and act like a warrior. I will repeat this once more: Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. What helps a sorcerer live a better life is the strength of being a warrior."
Carlos Castaneda
A Seperate Reality
"When a sorcerer interprets an omen he knows its exact meaning without having any notion of how he knows it. This is one of the bewildering effects of the connecting link with intent . Sorcerers have a sense of knowing things directly. How sure they are depends on the strength and clarity of their connecting link.
The feeling everyone knows as "intuition" is the activation of our link with intent."
Carlos Castaneda
The Power of Silence
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"Nothing that happens is without effect. If you throw a stone in a pond the universe isn't quite the same as it was before. . . It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than a ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another, and that one a third; it's just possible that a few people will see that my way of life offers happiness and peace, and the they in turn will teach what they have learnt to others."
Larry Darrell, the main character in the novel The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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The essence of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that is easily spoiled and lost when that simplicity is changed. This principle applies not only to things, but to people as well.
"Like an Uncarved Block" is living a path of harmony -- simple in its form, but not yet carved by the world around it. This is what one should be, to return to, to find -- the true original inner nature of simplicity. The reality of motion manifests itself in both simplicity and complexity. Balance is nedded with both, yet primal simplicity needs to be kept in order to better deal with complexity. There is nothing wrong with complexity, so long as you aren't swept up in its whirlwind, which will only cause your mind to become congested with impurities. You should see the simple and embrace the primal, so that you are better able to manage the complex. So, the Tao says become like an Uncarved Block, untouched by the shaping of reality's complexities.
THE UNCARVED BLOCK
Yurok Medicine Man, The Other Californians
Robert F. Heizer and Alan J. Almquist
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"Passivity", he said, "is a violation of our nature, because, in essence, we are all formidable combatants. Every human being is, by right, a soldier who has achieved his place in the world in a battle of life and death."
"Look at it this way: At least once, as sperms, each one of us fought a battle for life - a unique struggle against millions of other competitors - and we won! And now the battle continues, since we are trapped by the forces in the world. One part of us is fighting to disintegrate and die, while another tries to maintain life and awareness at any cost. There is no peace! A warrior realizes this, and used it to his advantage. His goal continues to be that which inspired the spark of life that created him: Access to a new level of awareness."
He continued by saying that as we become socialized, human beings are tamed, just like animal is domesticated, by the power of stimuli and punishments.
"We have been trained to live and die meekly, following unnatural codes of behaviour which soften us and make us lose that initial impulse, until our spirit is hardly noticeable. We are born as a result of a fight. By denying our basic tendencies, the society we live in eradicates the warring heritage that transforms us into magical beings."
He added that the only available way to change is to accept ourselves just as we are, and work from there.
"The warrior knows that he lives in a predatorial universe. He can never let his guard down. Wherever he looks, he sees an incessant fight, and he knows that it deserves his respect, because it is a fight to the death. Don Juan was always moving, coming or going, supporting this or rejecting that, provoking tensions or discharging them in a burst, shouting his intent or remaining silent; doing something. He was alive, and his life reflected the ebb and flow of the universe.
"He told me that, from the moment when the explosion which gave us origin occurred, until the moment of our death, we live within a flow. Those two episodes are unique, because they prepare us for the encounter of what lies further ahead. And what aligns us to that flow? An incessant battle, which only a warrior will attempt. Because of that, he lives in profound harmony with everything.
"For a warrior, to be harmonious is to flow, not to stop in the middle of the current and try to make a space of artificial and impossible peace. He knows that he can only give the very best of himself under conditions of maximum tension. For that reason, he seeks out his opponent the way a fighting rooster does - with avidity, with delight, knowing that the next step is decisive. His opponent is not his fellow man, but his own attachments and weaknesses, and his grand challenge is to compress the layers of his energy until they won't expand when his life ceases, so that his awareness does not die.
"Ask yourselves these questions: What am I doing with my life? Does it have a purpose? Is it tight enough? A warrior accepts his destiny, whatever it may be. However, he fights to change things, and he made something exquisite of his passage on Earth. He tempers his will in such a way that nothing can deviate him from his purpose."
Armando Torres
Encounters with the Nagual
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This habit of identifying word with `thing' creates verbalism. We use many words under the delusional evaluation that we are talking about `beings', `entities', and `things', when in fact the words are only symbols for different orders of abstractions. The entire race has become afflicted with this habit, which has resulted in elementalism, infantilism, and dense ignorance. Why? Because the race lives on the verbalistic level, under the delusion that all words represent and stand for `things', `beings' and `entities.' So a general racial, mesmeric, psychic consciousness is built up which has no foundation whatever in truth, in fact, or in reality. In that delusional, mesmeric, and psychic state, we think we are talking about factual, important, and actual `things' as subjects; whereas we are merely making noises—bla bla about tra tra.
Vitvan
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This habit of identifying word with `thing' creates verbalism. We use many words under the delusional evaluation that we are talking about `beings', `entities', and `things', when in fact the words are only symbols for different orders of abstractions. The entire race has become afflicted with this habit, which has resulted in elementalism, infantilism, and dense ignorance. Why? Because the race lives on the verbalistic level, under the delusion that all words represent and stand for `things', `beings' and `entities.' So a general racial, mesmeric, psychic consciousness is built up which has no foundation whatever in truth, in fact, or in reality. In that delusional, mesmeric, and psychic state, we think we are talking about factual, important, and actual `things' as subjects; whereas we are merely making noises—bla bla about tra tra.
Vitvan
On the same token, however, what would we do without a world of words as communication? We have limitations, granted, and words aren't the only way to communicate. There's plenty of effective non-verbal communication which can be done. But could we really function without words, or 'sounds' that we cause with words, such as when speaking?
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On the same token, however, what would we do without a world of words as communication? We have limitations, granted, and words aren't the only way to communicate. There's plenty of effective non-verbal communication which can be done. But could we really function without words, or 'sounds' that we cause with words, such as when speaking?
Great comment E. Ang and I have discussed this often. Could it be though, that when 'we're in the zone,' there's really no need for words? We just know what to do, and then just act. If we could All hold this AP, we'd practically be telepathic and many forms of communication may be left in the dust....
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....................
Hey, it's my Dream, leave me alone with it!
:D
z
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Telepathic communication ... I've always felt this is how humans first communicated. Then speech came about so as to hide "thoughts" from others. A distraction of sorts. Telepathic is pure communication ... It's about form and function ... straight to the point, no misunderstandings ... no words ... beautiful :)
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Telepathic communication ... I've always felt this is how humans first communicated. Then speech came about so as to hide "thoughts" from others. A distraction of sorts. Telepathic is pure communication ... It's about form and function ... straight to the point, no misunderstandings ... no words ... beautiful :)
Humans... and animals communicate this way, too. It is beautiful and I think we're getting closer to the point where verbal communication is not entirely necessary anymore.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
~Viktor Frankl
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This just kicks my ass ;)
z
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This just kicks my ass ;)
z
That's inspirational, your ass? LOL!
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That's inspirational, your ass? LOL!
Heh.....no.
The quote, above. Just seemed to hit me at just the right time ;)
z
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Pain
"This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where
people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you
more alert--because people become alert only when the arrow
goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they
don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient,
who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies,
there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone--those
dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much
and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone.
Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when,
if you use them, you can become aware.
The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you
miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you
are aware, misery disappears."
Osho
From Take it Easy, Volume 2
Chapter 12 Peace
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Heh.....no.
The quote, above. Just seemed to hit me at just the right time ;)
z
Ohhhh, it kicked your ass! Coulda asked me to do that. I do ass-kicking better than any quote can! :D :D :D
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Now it's time for you to become accessible to power, and you are going to begin by tackling dreaming.
A warrior seeks power, and one of the avenues to power is dreaming. What you call dreams are real for a warrior. You must understand that a warrior is not a fool. A warrior is an immaculate hunter who hunts power; he's not drunk, or crazed, and he has neither the time nor the disposition to bluff, or to lie to himself, or to make a wrong move. The stakes are too high for that. The stakes are his trimmed orderly life which he has taken so long to tighten and perfect. He is not going to throw that away by making some stupid miscalculation, by taking something for being something else.
Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a variety of items those which lead to power, and then he can manipulate them and use them, while in an ordinary dream he cannot act deliberately.
In dreaming you have power; you can change things; you may find out countless concealed facts; you can control whatever you want. You're going to learn how to make yourself accessible to power.
Power is something a warrior deals with. At first it's an incredible, far-fetched affair; it is hard to even think about it. Then power becomes a serious matter; one may not have it, or one may not even fully realize that it exists, yet one knows that something is there, something which was not noticeable before. Next power is manifested as something uncontrollable that comes to oneself. It is not possible for me to say how it comes or what it really is. It is nothing and yet it makes marvels appear before your very eyes. And finally power is something in oneself, something that controls one's acts and yet obeys one's command.
I am going to teach you right here the first step to power. I am going to teach you how to set up dreaming. To set up dreaming means to have a concise and pragmatic control over the general situation of a dream, comparable to the control one has over any choice in the desert for instance, such as climbing up a hill or remaining in the shade of a water canyon. You must start by doing something very simple. Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.
Don't think it's a joke. Dreaming is as serious as seeing or dying or any other thing in this awesome, mysterious world. Think of it as something entertaining and don't get discouraged or stop trying if you don't succeed right away. Imagine all the inconceivable things you could accomplish. A man hunting for power has almost no limits in his dreaming. The trick in learning to set up dreaming is obviously not just to look at things but to sustain the sight of them. Dreaming is real when one has succeeded in bringing everything into focus. Then there is no difference between what you do when you sleep and what you do when you are not sleeping.
Carlos Castaneda
The Early Years
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Ha!
Do you know how awesome you are? ???
I was just thinking about this. 8)
AmaZing!
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Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a variety of items those which lead to power, and then he can manipulate them and use them, while in an ordinary dream he cannot act deliberately.
In dreaming you have power; you can change things; you may find out countless concealed facts; you can control whatever you want. You're going to learn how to make yourself accessible to power.
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LOL!
I have all comments don Juan spoke about concerning Dreaming in a Word file ;)
(Up thru Art of Dreaming that is...and that's a seperate read all in itself.)
I can send to you if you'd like ;)
z
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Thanks
I have most of the books on my other computer. Thanks to Rudi. He sent me all the CC books, plus some of the Witches in RAR files a couple years ago.
But, the dreaming references would be of interest if you'd like to send them.
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Good reminder on dreaming and power, thanks Kris ;) (Gods knows I need the reminder these days)!
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This was the lesson demonstrated for me today:
A paper warrior is one who crumbles under the first real situation where his self-importance stands in his way.
z
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This was the lesson demonstrated for me today:
A paper warrior is one who crumbles under the first real situation where his self-importance stands in his way.
z
Hmmm. That'd be because the paper warrior has crafted an image of a warrior. Which is self important, too. Images dont survive under real situations. A real situation requires a real warrior.
But real warriors can get banged up. But drawing blood versus a spitwad? Heh. That's the difference. :)
Taste of blood doesnt bother me. It motivates me.
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"What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only
the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of
the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future,
and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just
as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything,
there is never anything to be gained--though the zest of the game is to pretend
there is." ~Alan Watts