what do you see?

 sarcophagus lid of KING PAKAL's tomb

ca. 683 AD temple of palenque

the natural gap...

there are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena -

only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural -

my sacred space...

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
is the space between exhalation and inhalation.
To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality)
and Earth (physicality) in Harmony.

seeing the sacred shapes...

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 things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being.

Black Elk - Black Elk Speaks

the true peace...

The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness,

with the universe and all its powers,

and when they realize that 

at the center of the universe 

dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit),
and that this center is really everywhere, 

it is within each of us.

This is the real peace, 

and the others are but reflections of this.
 

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals,
and the third is that which is made between two nations.

But above all you should understand 

that there can never be peace 

between nations until there is 

known that true peace,
which, as I have often said, 

is within the souls of men.

Black Elk

Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader

1863 - 1950

earth, teach me...

Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new 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 mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that 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 with rain.

An Ute Prayer

the way...

the way is not

in the sky -

the way

is in the

heart

to SEA the hand...

It is a curious situation that 

the sea,

from which life first arose, 

should now

be threatened

by the

activities of 

one form
of that
life.

what is man without the beasts?

what is man without the beasts? 

if all the beasts were gone,

man would die from a 

great loneliness of spirit -

for whatever happens 

to the beasts, soon 

happens to man -

all things are connected

they come...

they come
their hearts upon the drum
it is not done

they come from another place
another time

from the dark recesses
of our mind
they speak in voices
still unknown
until our sins we atone
and then the lion upon the throne
the way to life we’ll be shown

they come

you deserve...

You can search throughout 

the entire universe 

for someone 

who is more deserving 

of your love and affection 

than you are yourself, 

and that person 

is not to be found anywhere-

You 

yourself

as much as anybody

in the entire universe

 deserve

your

love

and

 affection

to voyage through time...

one glance

at a book
and you hear
the voice of another person -
perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years -
to read is
to voyage
through time

the stillness...

to the mind that is still

the whole universe

surrenders

the voyage...

the real voyage of discovery 

consists not in seeking new lands

but in seeing with new eyes...

 - MU -

the gods look down upon the earth...

and

what

do

they

see

 ?

- MU -

the darkening...

High on her speculative tower

Stood Science waiting for the hour
When Sol was destined to endure
That darkening of his radiant face
Which Superstition strove to chase,
Erewhile, with rites impure.

[in honor of the sun's total eclipse july 11, 2010]

- MU -

the vision...

for i dipped into the future

far as the human eye could see

saw the vision of the world

and all the wonder

that would be

- MU -

the chance...

We stand now where two roads diverge. 

But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's 

familiar poem, they are not equally fair. 

The road we have long been traveling 

is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway 

on which we progress with great speed,

but at its end lies disaster. 

The other fork of the road -- 

the one less traveled by -- 

offers our last, 

our only chance 

to reach a destination 

that assures 

the preservation 

of the earth. 

-MU-

the light over the gulf of darkness...

...and our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well.

If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. 

But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet.

- MU -