Dear friends,
The Native American tradition contains so much wisdom that has really only recently been brought to the attention of the outside world.
Here is a thought that comes to us from Black Elk.
It's called the Sacred Hoop.
Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all,
And round 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 the sacred manner the shape of all things of the spirit,
And the shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle,
Wide as daylight and starlight.
And in the centre grew one mighty flowering tree,
Flowering tree,
To shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
And I saw that it was holy.
Some words there from Black Elk.
Namaste.