“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at the center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be One.”
Spoken by Chief Crazy Horse, September, 1877.
You too are a Medicine Wheel, and the magic of your Perceiving will be unfolded.
- Hyemeyohsts Storm
So be patient with the events in life that find you feeling disappointed, and remember each line we script in the Great Play we call life, is a line that is never wasted, and a line that can ultimately lead to something more beautiful than we can ever possibly imagine in the present. This is true for each one of us.
-Tim Watson
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
-Theodore Roethke
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
The entire Creation still follows the Original Instructions of life. The Tree, the fruits, they never fail.
They never make a mistake to bring their fruits in their season.
The Animals never make a mistake.
They still live as they were created.
Among the Creation…Life, the Circle, a measurement with no beginning and no ending.
- Phillip Deere (Muskogee Creek 1977)
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. —Wendell Berry
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
- Brenda Ueland
Every element of creation expresses the Creator. Within each mountain, each stone, and each heart lies the Great Spirit… When looking upon a sunset, the trees, or even your worst enemy, you are looking at the Creator. Know this and give praise and prayer.
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Redbird)
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
- Shakti Gawain
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
” A wee child toddling in a wonder world , , , I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Redbird)
Resources
Wonderful, insightful, brilliant – these qualities characterize the thinking and writing going on around the world on topics of great interest to The New Monk Project.
We’ve decided to do two things as part of our service to our fellow Eco-spiritual Pioneers, and our Planet.
In keeping with our daily meditation offering “Journey Reflections” (see our home page), at the beginning of each month we are posting what we view to be the one best 2000 word (give or take) writing we happen to discover on any of the categories of information now offered through our library resource.
Our second “musings” service is to post on this same section of the site selected thought-provoking writings submitted by our members as an extension of our offer to assist our members as a publishing resource through our affiliated organization, The Center for Ecozoic Studies.