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SPIRITUAL HEALING FOR A SICK WORLD
Monday March 19, 2007
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| Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 17 |
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| "By listening to the inner self and following one's instincts and intuitions, a person may be guided to safety." |
| --Dr. A.C. Ross (Ehanamani), LAKOTA |
| Be still and know. The Medicine Wheel teaches the four directions of inner power-not personal power, but the power of God. These four directions are emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual. As our emotions get too far our of control, we simultaneously create an equivalent mental picture, our physical body fills with stress and tension, and we become spiritually confused. When we experience these uptight feelings, the best thing to do is mentally pause, slow down our thinking, breathe slowly, or pray and ask the spirits to help. Only when we approach the stillness of the mind do we get access to our spiritual guidance system. To be guided, let your mind be still. |
Creator, today, let me reside in Your stillness. | | | | |
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Friday March 16, 2007
| Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 16 |
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| "Each of us must know in our minds and believe in our hearts that even though we are different, you are like me and I am like you." |
| --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA |
| One of the definitions of humility is having an awareness of one's own character defects. To recognize and acknowledge that one has imperfections is being humble. We should never pray for ourselves unless by doing so it would help another person. To have self-importance puts self first and this is not humble. We each have strengths and we each have weaknesses. Both the strengths and weaknesses are sacred. Life is sacred. We learn sacred things from weaknesses also. Therefore, all lives are developed through trial and error, strength and weakness, ups and downs, gains and losses- all of these are part of life and life is sacred. |
Great Mystery, let me see and know about the sacredness of life. | | | |
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| Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 15 |
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| "We were taught generosity to the poor and reverence for the Great Mystery. Religion was the basis of all Indian training." |
| --Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), SANTEE SIOUX |
| Every Indian knows and has a feeling inside that, bottom line, our real purpose on earth is to be of service to our fellow man and to be of maximum service to the Great Spirit. The Creator designed the earth to be self supporting --everything is interconnected and all things were created to be of service to each other. The Indian way is to pray about all things. Religion is not separate from any part of our lives. Everything is spiritual and we are to view all matters in this way. Family is spiritual, work is spiritual, helping others is spiritual, our bodies are spiritual, our talk is spiritual, our thoughts are spiritual. We need to practice seeing all things as spiritual. |
Great Spirit, today let me help the needy and allow me the wisdom to have respect and reverence for Your teachings. | | | |
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Wednesday March 14, 2007
The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
Abdu'l-Bahá
The Secret of Divine Civilization, page 109
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Tuesday March 13, 2007
My son-in-law passed away 6 weeks after I went out there. Was unable to hook up to the net so was unable to keep touch. Hope life went well for all of you while I was gone and that you are well and happy.
Lovingly,
Tula | | | |
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